Iakovos Korozes

Life

Born

1927

Ordained deacon

9 November 1952

Ordained priest

8 November 1953

Consecrated bishop

2 March 1980

Made metropolitan

2 March 1980

Retired

1997

Died

4 June 2009

Sees

1. 2 March 1980 – 1997

   Metropolitan of Kythira

   Church of Greece

2. 1997 – 4 June 2009

   Former Metropolitan of Kythira

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 2 March 1980 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Iakovos Kleomvrotos Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, 1907–1987
• Barnabas Tzortzatos Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, 1918–1985
• Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983
• Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007
• Theophilos Kanavos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1921–2006
• Chrysostom Voultsos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1927–1986
• Gregory II Maistros Metropolitan of Kastoria
• Ambrose Stamenas Metropolitan of Paronaxia, 1922–2008
• Agathangelos Tampouratzakis Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1929–2001
• Panteleimon Bardakos Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, 1920–1995
• Sergios Sigalas Metropolitan of Grevena, 1934–2014
• Panteleimon Bezenitis Metropolitan of Attica, 1938–2014
• Dionysios Bairaktaris Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1927–2011
• Meletios Kalamaras Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1933–2012

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 Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira consecrated 2 March 1980
2. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
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 6

• 29 March 1981Nikodemos Anagnostou Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1931–2012
• 3 October 1981Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023
• 4 October 1981Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• 6 May 1984Chrysostom Kalamatianos Metropolitan of Methymna, b. 1930
• 15 October 1989Demetrios Bekiares Metropolitan of Goumenissa, Axiopolis and Polykastron, b. 1948
• 27 January 1995Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959