Serapheim Xenopoulos

Life

Born

1800

Ordained deacon

24 December 1832

Ordained priest

23 February 1847

Consecrated bishop

10 October 1848

Made metropolitan

27 January 1864

Died

5 January 1894

Sees

1. 10 October 1848 – 27 January 1864

   Bishop of Argyropolis

   Vicar of Constantinople · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 27 January 1864 – 1882

   Metropolitan of Arta

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 30 September 1873 – 1 December 1873

   Locum tenens of Patriarchal Throne

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 1882 – 5 January 1894

   Metropolitan of Arta

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 10 October 1848 by:

• Dionysios Kotakes Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1790–1877
• Agathangelos Scholarios/Gavrielides Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1818–1893
• Gerasimos Nikolaou Metropolitan of Pisidia, d. 1859

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Gerasimos Nikolaou; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Xenopoulos Metropolitan of Arta consecrated 10 October 1848
2. Gerasimos Nikolaou Metropolitan of Pisidia, d. 1859 consecrated 1821

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 22 April 1873Constantios Gazes Metropolitan of Maroneia, 1830–1908
• 16 January 1874Kallinikos Eutychides Metropolitan of Xanthi, d. 1877
• 2 February 1884Socrates Koliatsos Archbishop of Corinth, 1834–1899
• 17 March 1884Germanos I Kalligas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1844–1896