Pankratios Synapalos, Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora

Pankratios Synapalos, Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora

Pankratios Synapalos was born in Vavdos of Chalkidiki in 1866. In 1886 he was tonsured a monk at the Monastery of Vatopaidi, and in 1889 he was ordained a deacon. Since 1905 he served as archimandrite in Tatavla of Constantinople. In Constantinople in 1917 he published a book of music theory titled I Mousiki Klimax [The Musical Scale], which he signed as an “archimandrite of Vatopaidi” and “teacher of Theology”. It was a scholarly breakdown of the musical scale, mapping out the intervals of the chords with great mathematical precision. He was later elected Bishop of Levki. In Constantinople in 1929, he published his book Oi Palaioimerologitai, oi Neoimerologitai, kai to Agion Pascha [The Old Calendarists, the New Calendarists, and Holy Pascha], signing it as Bishop of Levki. Under the title Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora, he signed the books Exigisis tis akolouthias tou Akathistou Ymnou kai en dysepilyto provlima: to telos tou kosmou [An explanation of the service of the Akathist Hymn and the difficult problem: the end of the world], Constantinople 1945, and Ta lathi tis physikis kai oi akriveis typoi tis ptoseos ton somaton [The errors of physics and the exact formulas of the decline of bodies], Constantinople 1948.