Iakovos Antonopoulos

Life

Born

6 March 1977

Monastic tonsure

2005

Ordained deacon

2006

Ordained priest

2008

Made archimandrite

2010

Consecrated bishop

30 July 2020

Made metropolitan

22 March 2024

Sees

1. 30 July 2020 – 22 March 2024

   Bishop of Zenoupolis

   Vicar of Canada · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 22 March 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Ireland

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 30 July 2020 by:

• Sotirios Athanassoulas Archbishop of Canada, b. 1936
• John-Cassian Tunaru Bishop of Canada, b. 1969
• Bartholomew Mostratos Bishop of Keramon, b. 1954
• Athenagoras Salmas Bishop of Patara, b. 1974

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 Antonopoulos Metropolitan of Ireland consecrated 30 July 2020
2. Athenagoras Salmas Bishop of Patara, b. 1974 consecrated 26 July 2020
3. Andrew Peshko Bishop of Toronto, b. 1972 consecrated 13 December 2005
4. Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967 consecrated 14 July 2002
5. Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020 consecrated 6 May 1967
6. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
7. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr