Serapheim Rores

Life

Born

1929

Monastic tonsure

1962

Ordained deacon

10 August 1962

Ordained priest

14 October 1962

Made archimandrite

25 October 1962

Consecrated bishop

24 November 1968

Made metropolitan

24 November 1968

Sees

1. 24 November 1968 – present

   Metropolitan of Karystia and Skyros

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 24 November 1968 by:

• Anthony Klaoudatos Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, 1912–1994
• Sotirios Kitsos Metropolitan of Gytheion and Oitylos, 1920–1996
• Theokletos Philippaios Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria, 1918–1995
• Chrysostom Delegiannopoulos Metropolitan of Argolis, 1916–1985
• Elias Tsakogiannis Metropolitan of Tracheia, 1917–1990

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Rores Metropolitan of Karystia and Skyros consecrated 24 November 1968
2. Anthony Klaoudatos Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, 1912–1994 consecrated 28 March 1954
3. Germanos Goumas Metropolitan of Eleia, 1899–1982 consecrated 22 March 1936
4. Panteleimon Phostinis Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1888–1962 consecrated 24 December 1922
5. Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958 consecrated 5 June 1911
6. Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917 consecrated 8 July 1901
7. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
8. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
9. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 21 March 1993Sotirios Trambas Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1929–2022
• 10 February 2018Chrysostom Papathanasiou Metropolitan of Mani, b. 1950

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr