Iakovos Stefanidis

Life

Born

3 September 1916

Ordained deacon

4 December 1938

Ordained priest

30 November 1947

Made archimandrite

30 November 1947

Consecrated bishop

7 July 1950

Retired

July 1955

Died

16 April 1965

Sees

1. 7 July 1950 – July 1955

   Metropolitan of Iconium

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. July 1955 – 16 April 1965

   Former Metropolitan of Iconium

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 7 July 1950 by:

• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996
• Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• Dorotheos Georgiades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1891–1974
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• Germanos Garophallides Metropolitan of Ainos, 1893–1962
• Philotheos Stavrides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1882–1963
• Pankratios Paradeises/Vatopedinos Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora, 1870–1952
• Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986

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 Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium consecrated 7 July 1950
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 7

• 6 August 1950Apostolos Papaioannou Metropolitan of Ainos, 1915–1977
• 10 September 1950Mark Lipa Bishop of Levkada, 1919–1982
• 2 December 1950Isidore Aedonopoulos Metropolitan of Leros, Kalymnos and Astypalea, 1911–1983
• 28 January 1951Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005
• 8 August 1954Iakovos Tzanavares/Papaioannou Metropolitan of Germany, 1920–1971
• 28 June 1959Emilianos Tsakopoulos Metropolitan of Miletus, 1915–1985
• 1964Nicholas Koutroumbes Metropolitan of Aneon, 1903–1972