Iakovos Coucouzes

Life

Born

29 July 1911

Ordained deacon

25 November 1934

Ordained priest

June 1940

Consecrated bishop

6 February 1955

Made metropolitan

5 April 1956

Made archbishop

14 February 1959

Retired

30 July 1996

Died

10 April 2005

Sees

1. 6 February 1955 – 5 April 1956

   Bishop of MeLevkadas

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 5 April 1956 – 14 February 1959

   Metropolitan of Meliton

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 14 February 1959 – 30 July 1996

   Archbishop of North and South America

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 30 July 1996 – 10 April 2005

   Former Archbishop of North and South America

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 6 February 1955 by:

• Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• Dorotheos Georgiades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1891–1974
• Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986
• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972

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 Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America consecrated 6 February 1955
2. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
3. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
4. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 11

• 6 November 1955Chrysostom Tsiter Metropolitan of Austria, 1903–1995
• 13 May 1956Iakovos Virvos Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1901–1976
• 14 October 1956Jüri Välbe Bishop of Ravenna, 1881–1961
• 21 November 1957Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007
• 30 October 1960Meletios Tripodakis Bishop of Christianoupolis, 1911–1983
• 7 August 1966Victorin Ursache Archbishop of America and Canada, 1912–2001
• 28 January 1967Andrew Kuschak Metropolitan of Evkarpia, 1901–1986
• 13 March 1983Nicholas Smisko Metropolitan of Amissos and Primate of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the USA, 1936–2011
• 27 September 1987Vsevolod Kolomiitsiv-Maidanskii Archbishop of Scopelos, 1927–2007
• 2 February 2002Savvas Zembillas Metropolitan of Pittsburgh, b. 1957
• 10 May 2003Evangelos Kourounis Metropolitan of Sardis, b. 1961

Sources

• wikidata.org

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