Bishop Constantine of Sassima has been elected Metropolitan of Denver by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which is meeting in the Phanar.
It will be recalled that the Triprosopo to fill the vacancy in the Diocese, apart from Bishop of Sassima, consisted of Archimandrite George Nikas and Bishop Sevastianos of Zilon.
Biography
Bishop Constantine Moralis of Sassima was born in Baltimore Maryland in 1966.
His father, Panagiotis, was born in Athens to parents who were refugees from Asia Minor, and his mother, Sarah, was born in Mobile, Alabama, whose family came from Patmos and Egypt.
From the age of nine, he began serving as a priest in the Holy Vema under the late Fr. In 1988, he entered the Hellenic College and School of Theology at Holy Cross Boston. In 1996, he was ordained a Deacon and Presbyter by the late Metropolitan Silas of New Jersey, and in 2002, Archbishop Demetrios, the former Archbishop of America, conferred upon him the title of Archimandrite and appointed him Priestly Superior of the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Baltimore.
He was elected Bishop of Sassima on July 22, 2022, and has since served as Archbishop of the Diocese of Denver.
Translated by Ioanna Georgakopoulou
