His Eminence, Metropolitan Sevastianos of Atlanta, was born in Ano-Zodia, Cyprus, he is the oldest of three children of Panayiota and Frixos Skordallos. He received his primary education in his village and then attended the Economic High School, Morphou, Cyprus where he graduated in 1973. and the Theological School of the University of Athens, Greece (1978). He received a scholarship (1979) through the World Council of Churches to study in the United States at Columbia Theological Seminary and Emory University in Decatur, Georgia where he received a Th.M. in Pastoral Psychology (1982). He has worked and received advanced certification in Clinical Pastoral Education at Caraway Methodist Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama (1980-1982), and furthered his studies in Pastoral Psychology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee as well as at Middle Tennessee State University (1982-1984).

Metropolitan Sevastianos was ordained as a Deacon on January 17, 1974, by the late Metropolitan of Morphou Chrysanthos. As a Deacon he served the late Metropolitan Chyrsanthos of Morphou (1974), St. George Church, in Acadimia Platonos, in Athens (1975), and St. Nicholas Church in Kato Patisia, Athens (1976-78).

He was ordained as a Priest on March 4, 1979, in England by the then Bishop of Tropaiou and later Archbishop of Tyateira Gregorios. As a priest he served in Nottingham, England (1979), Holy Trinity-Holy Cross in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. (1980-82), Sts. Constantine and Helen – Holy Cross, Huntsville, Alabama (1982-84, 1988-93), the Cathedral of Panayia Catholike, Limassol, Cyprus (1984-88), Holy Transfiguration, Marietta, Georgia (1993-2004), where he was able to build their first church edifice, educational build, and amphitheater. He continued his service at St. Nicholas Cathedral, Tarpon Springs, Florida (2004-06), where he was honored to receive His All-Holness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew who lead the Centennial Celebration of St. Nicholas Cathedral as well as the Great Blessing of the Waters during Theophany and the retrieving of the cross by the youth which was attended by over 60,000 faithful and visitors.

He received the offikion of Archimandrite by the late Archbishop of Thyateira Athenagoras. He was appointed Chief Secretary of the Holy Eparchial Synod by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America on June 1, 2006 through 2018.

On December 2, 2011, he was elected by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate as an Auxiliary Bishop under the title of the once-glorious Diocese of Zela, serving under then-Archbishop of America Demetrios. In 2012, he was appointed Spiritual Advisor to the National Philoptochos Society of America.

Metropolitan Sevastianos was actively involved in the administration of the Church, and in particular on the Metropolis of Atlanta Council and the Archdiocesan Council, specifically in the Administration Committee of the Archdiocesan Council where he assisted in developing resources for the training of Parish Councils, and in the Legal Committee of the Archdiocese. He has served as President of the Clergy Syndesmos of the Metropolis of Atlanta for several years and was a member of the Archdiocesan Presbyters Council where he served as Vice-President.

In early December 2018, His Eminence returned to the Metropolis of Atlanta to assist His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios in ministering and serving the faithful within the Metropolis of Atlanta.

On December 2, 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America recommended to the Eparchial Synod that His Grace Bishop Sevastianos of Zela succeed His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios as the new Metropolitan of Atlanta. On the same day the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimous elected His Grace Bishop Sevastianos of Zela as the new Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Atlanta. 

His Eminence Metropolitan Sevastianos was Enthroned as Metropolitan of Atlanta on January 25, 2025, at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Ἄνῳ Ζώδιᾳ τῆς Κύπρου, πρωτότοκος τριῶν τέκνων τῆς Παναγιώτας καὶ τοῦ Φρίξου
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ἐνεγράφη εἰς τὸ Οἰκονοµικὸν Λύκειον Μόρφου (Κύπρου), ἐκ τοῦ ὁποίου ἀπεφοίτησεν τὸ
ἔτος 1973. Κατόπιν, εἰσήχθη εἰς τὴν Θεολογικὴν Σχολὴν τοῦ Πανεπιστημίου Ἀθηνῶν καὶ
µετὰ τὴν λῆψιν τοῦ πτυχίου (1978) µετέβη, δι᾽ ὑποτροφίας τοῦ Παγκοσμίου Συμβουλίου
Ἐκκλησιῶν, εἰς τὰς Ἡνωμένας Πολιτείας Ἀµερικῆς, ὅπου ἐφοίτησεν εἰς τὸ Columbia
Theological Seminary καὶ εἰς τὸ Πανεπιστήµιον Emory τῆς πόλεως Decatur ἐν Georgia,
λαβὼν πτυχίον Μάστερ Θεολογίας εἰδικευθεὶς εἰς τὴν Ποιμαντικὴν Ψυχολογίαν (1982).
Ἐµαθήτευσεν καὶ ἔλαβεν ἀνωτάτην πιστοποίησιν εἰς τὴν Κλινικὴν Ποιμαντικὴν
Ἐκπαίδευσιν ἐν τῷ Caraway Methodist Medical Center, ἐν Birmingham τῆς Alabama
(1980-1982). Μεταξὺ δὲ τῶν ἐτῶν 1982-1984 ἐπραγµατοποίησεν ἀνωτάτας
µεταπτυχιακὰς σπουδὰς εἰς τὴν Ποιµαντικὴν Ψυχολογίαν, εἰς τὰ Πανεπιστήµια
Vanderbilt University, Nashville τοῦ Tennessee, καὶ Middle Tennessee State University.
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Μόρφου κυροῦ Χρυσάνθου, ὑπηρετήσας ἀρχικῶς παρ᾿ αὐτῷ (1974) καὶ ἐν συνεχείᾳ εἰς
τὸν Ἱερὸν Ναὸν τοῦ Ἁγ. Γεωργίου τῆς Ἀκαδηµίας Πλάτωνος, ἐν Ἀθήναις (1975), καὶ εἰς
τὸν Ἱερὸν Ναὸν τοῦ Ἁγ. Νικολάου, εἰς Κάτω Πατήσια Ἀθηνῶν (1976-78).
Τὴν 4 ην Μαρτίου 1979 ἐχειροτονήθη Πρεσβύτερος εἰς Ἀγγλίαν ὑπὸ τοῦ τότε Ἐπισκόπου
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τὸν Ἱερὸν Ναὸν τῆς Ἁγ. Τριάδος-Τιµίου Σταυροῦ ἐν Birmingham τῆς Alabama (1980-82),
εἰς τὸν Ἱερὸν Ναὸν τῶν Ἁγίων Κωνσταντίνου καὶ Ἑλένης-Τιµίου Σταυροῦ ἐν Huntsville
τῆς Alabama (1982-84, 1988-93), εἰς τὸν Ἱερὸν Μητροπολιτικὸν Ναὸν τῆς Παναγίας
τῆς Καθολικῆς ἐν Λεµεσῷ τῆς Κύπρου (1984-88), εἰς τὸν Ἱερὸν Ναὸν τῆς
Μεταµορφώσεως ἐν Marietta, Georgia (1993-2004), ὅπου καὶ ἀνήγειρεν ἐκ βάθρων τὸν
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τοῦ Οἰκουµενικοῦ Πατριαρχείου Βοηθὸς Ἐπίσκοπος παρὰ τῷ τότε Ἀρχιεπισκόπῳ
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Ἀµερικῆς, ὑπηρέτησεν εἰς τὸ Μητροπολιτικὸν Συµβούλιον τῆς Ἱ. Μητροπόλεως Ἀτλάντας
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Ἀρχιεπισκοπικοῦ Συµβουλίου Πρεσβυτέρων ἀπὸ τῆς θέσεως τοῦ Ἀντιπροέδρου.
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