Iakovos Tzanavares/Papaioannou

Life

Born

4 March 1920

Ordained deacon

29 June 1941

Ordained priest

25 December 1950

Made archimandrite

25 December 1950

Consecrated bishop

8 August 1954

Made metropolitan

8 August 1954

Died

3 December 1971

Sees

1. 8 August 1954 – 1969

   Metropolitan of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1969 – 3 December 1971

   Metropolitan of Germany

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 8 August 1954 by:

• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• Dorotheos Georgiades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1891–1974
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• Agathangelos Papatheodorou Metropolitan of Kydonia, 1885–1960
• Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965
• Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Iakovos Tzanavares/Papaioannou Metropolitan of Germany consecrated 8 August 1954
2. Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965 consecrated 7 July 1950
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 12 June 1959Emilianos Zacharopoulos Former Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros, 1915–2011