Iakovos Bizaourtis

Life

Born

1948

Ordained deacon

1972

Ordained priest

1972

Consecrated bishop

11 March 2012

Made metropolitan

3 November 2021

Sees

1. 11 March 2012 – 3 November 2021

   Bishop of Thaumakos

   Vicar of Athens · Church of Greece

2. 3 November 2021 – present

   Metropolitan of Thaumakos

   Vicar of Athens · Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 11 March 2012 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Nikodemos Anagnostou Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1931–2012
• Basil Kolokas Metropolitan of Elassona, 1953–2014
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• John Sakellariou Metropolitan of Thermopylai, b. 1940
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Chrysostom Triantaphyllou Metropolitan of Chalkis, Istiaia and Voreion Sporadon, b. 1957
• Cyril Misiakoules Metropolitan of Kephisia, Amarousios and Oropos, b. 1963
• Meliton Kavatsikles Metropolitan of Marathon, 1946–2016
• Prokopios Petrides Bishop of Christianoupolis, b. 1960
• Theodoritos Tsirigotes Metropolitan of Elaia, b. 1941
• Theodoritos Polyzogopoulos Metropolitan of Laodicea, b. 1948
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Anthony Avramiotes Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, b. 1957

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Iakovos Bizaourtis Bishop of Thaumakos consecrated 11 March 2012
2. Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976 consecrated 9 October 2011
3. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967 consecrated 20 March 2011
4. Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966 consecrated 14 January 2002
5. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 28 June 2014Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968
• 13 October 2014Clement Koutsomytes Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1954–2021
• 11 February 2018Symeon Voliotes Metropolitan of Phthiotis, b. 1977
• 12 February 2018Constantios Panagiotakopoulos Bishop of Androusa, b. 1960
• 7 October 2018Hieronymos Nikopoulos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, b. 1971
• 5 November 2023Nektarios Milionis Bishop of Photike, b. 1942