Sergios Sigalas

Life

Born

1934

Ordained deacon

3 March 1955

Ordained priest

25 January 1959

Consecrated bishop

15 August 1976

Made metropolitan

15 August 1976

Died

10 July 2014

Sees

1. 15 August 1976 – 10 July 2014

   Metropolitan of Grevena

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 15 August 1976 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Panteleimon Karanikolas Metropolitan of Corinth, 1919–2006
• Dionysios Ladopoulos Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, 1929–2008
• Serapheim Orphanos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, 1931–1989
• Kallinikos Karousos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1926–2020
• Iakovos Garmatis Metropolitan of Chicago, 1928–2017
• Peter Giakoumelos Metropolitan of Caesarea, 1932–2020

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Sergios Sigalas Metropolitan of Grevena consecrated 15 August 1976
2. Dionysios Ladopoulos Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, 1929–2008 consecrated 26 May 1974
3. Paul Giannikopoulos Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa, 1929–1993 consecrated 24 November 1968
4. Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994 consecrated 13 November 1957
5. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984 consecrated 11 January 1935
6. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
7. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
8. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
9. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
10. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 17 August 1976Ambrose Lenes Former Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1938
• 22 August 1976Alexios Michalopoulos 1932–2020
• 28 January 1979Nicholas Drosos Metropolitan of Karpenision, 1929–2019
• 2 March 1980Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009
• 21 November 1985Gregory III Papoutsopoulos Metropolitan of Kastoria, 1933–1996
• 24 November 1985Agathonikos Fatouros Former Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, b. 1937

Sources

Also in: Wikidata