Iakovos III Vavanatsos

Life

Born

1895

Consecrated bishop

11 January 1935

Made metropolitan

29 September 1936

Made archbishop

25 January 1962

Died

25 October 1984

Sees

1. 11 January 1935 – 29 September 1936

   Bishop of Christoupolis

   Vicar of Athens · Church of Greece

2. 29 September 1936 – 25 January 1962

   Metropolitan of Attica and Megaris

   Church of Greece

3. 25 January 1962 – 1963

   Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

   Church of Greece

4. 1963 – 1968

   Metropolitan of Attica and Megaris

   Church of Greece

5. 1968 – 25 October 1984

   Former Metropolitan of Attica and Megaris

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 11 January 1935 by:

• Chrysostom I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1868–1938
• Alexander Demoglou Metropolitan of Corfu and Paxoi, 1876–1942
• Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958
• Synesios Philippides Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, 1868–1944
• Spyridon Ginakas Bishop of Arta, 1871–1948
• Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963
• Joachim Apostolides Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1883–1962

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece consecrated 11 January 1935
2. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
3. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
4. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 22 March 1936Germanos Goumas Metropolitan of Eleia, 1899–1982
• 30 September 1936Panteleimon Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1902–1979
• 28 June 1953Meletios Karabinis Metropolitan of France, 1914–1993
• 3 July 1955Eustathios Eustathopoulos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1905–1969
• 6 November 1955Chrysostom Tsiter Metropolitan of Austria, 1903–1995
• 13 November 1957Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994
• 21 November 1957Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007
• 15 December 1957Titos Matthaiakes Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filiates and Giromeri, 1912–1991
• 31 January 1960Anatolios Georgiades Archbishop of Tiberias, 1909–1986

Sources

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