Stephen Aphentoulides

Life

Born

1923

Ordained deacon

1946

Ordained priest

1950

Consecrated bishop

16 March 1958

Made metropolitan

13 July 1974

Retired

1979

Died

29 December 2003

Sees

1. 16 March 1958 – 13 July 1974

   Bishop of Talantion

   Vicar of Thessaloniki · Church of Greece

2. 13 July 1974 – 1979

   Metropolitan of Trikki and Stagoi

   Church of Greece

3. 1979 – 29 December 2003

   Former Metropolitan of Trikki and Stagoi

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 16 March 1958 by:

• Theokletos II Panagiotopoulos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1889–1962
• Panteleimon Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1902–1979
• Dionysios Papanikolopoulos Metropolitan of Edessa and Pella, 1888–1968
• Iakovos Kleomvrotos Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, 1907–1987
• Timothy Matthaiakes Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, 1914–1992
• Damaskinos Kotzias Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, b. 1905

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Stephen Aphentoulides Former Metropolitan of Trikki and Stagoi consecrated 16 March 1958
2. Panteleimon Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1902–1979 consecrated 30 September 1936
3. Panteleimon Phostinis Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1888–1962 consecrated 24 December 1922
4. Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958 consecrated 5 June 1911
5. Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917 consecrated 8 July 1901
6. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
7. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
8. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 22 February 1976Chrysostom Zafeires Former Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1935–2019