Iakovos Papapaisiou

Life

Born

1885

Ordained priest

28 March 1926

Consecrated bishop

4 April 1926

Made metropolitan

4 April 1926

Retired

1 March 1977

Died

5 March 1980

Sees

1. 4 April 1926 – 1950

   Metropolitan of Imbros and Tenedos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1950 – 1 March 1977

   Metropolitan of Derka

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1 March 1977 – 5 March 1980

   Former Metropolitan of Derka

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 4 April 1926 by:

• Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929
• Benjamin I Psomas/Kyriakou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1871–1946
• Ambrose Stavrinos Metropolitan of Derka, 1854–1931
• Eugene Papathomas Metropolitan of Silybria, 1855–1934
• Cyril Ioannou/Chatzepapademetriou Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1872–1944
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka consecrated 4 April 1926
2. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
3. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
4. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 24 April 1926Agathangelos Papatheodorou Metropolitan of Kydonia, 1885–1960
• 25 December 1927Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953
• 6 October 1946Gerasimos Kalokairnos Bishop of Pamphilos, d. 1972
• 24 August 1947Theophylaktos Papathanasopoulos Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand, 1891–1958
• 7 July 1950Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965
• 30 November 1950Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• 2 December 1950Isidore Aedonopoulos Metropolitan of Leros, Kalymnos and Astypalea, 1911–1983
• 6 February 1955Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005
• 7 May 1956Nathaniel Dikaios Metropolitan of Kos, 1919–1979
• 17 November 1957Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983
• 12 June 1959Emilianos Zacharopoulos Former Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros, 1915–2011
• 6 February 1972Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1930–2018