Iakovos Virvos

Life

Born

1901

Consecrated bishop

13 May 1956

Made metropolitan

10 December 1963

Retired

February 1964

Died

17 December 1976

Sees

1. 13 May 1956 – 10 December 1963

   Bishop of Apamea

   Vicar of Thyateira and Great Britain · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 10 December 1963 – February 1964

   Metropolitan of Christoupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. February 1964 – 17 December 1976

   Former Metropolitan of Christoupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 13 May 1956 by:

• Athenagoras Cavadas Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1885–1962
• Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005
• Matthew Siemaszko Bishop of Aspendos, 1894–1985
• Meletios Karabinis Metropolitan of France, 1914–1993
• Chrysostom Tsiter Metropolitan of Austria, 1903–1995

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Iakovos Virvos Metropolitan of Christoupolis consecrated 13 May 1956
2. Matthew Siemaszko Bishop of Aspendos, 1894–1985 consecrated 29 November 1938
3. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
4. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
5. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 30 November 1957Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003
• 6 December 1959Dionysios Psiachas Metropolitan of Prousa, 1916–2008
• 25 September 1960Emilianos Timiadis Metropolitan of Silybria, 1916–2008

Sources

Also in: Wikidata