Iakovos Sophroniades

Life

Born

14 March 1947

Ordained deacon

14 September 1969

Ordained priest

11 March 1984

Consecrated bishop

25 December 1987

Made metropolitan

25 December 1987

Died

28 March 2018

Sees

1. 25 December 1987 – 2002

   Metropolitan of Laodicea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2002 – 28 March 2018

   Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 25 December 1987 by:

• Demetrios I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1914–1991
• Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005
• Maximos Repanelles Metropolitan of Stavroupolis, 1919–1991
• Symeon Amaryllios Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1920–2003
• Gabriel Premetidis Metropolitan of Koloneia, d. 2003
• Evangelos Galanes Metropolitan of Perga, 1928–2018
• Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014
• Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Panteleimon Rodopoulos Metropolitan of Tyroloë and Serention, 1929–2019

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 Sophroniades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands consecrated 25 December 1987
2. Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014 consecrated 6 December 1970
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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 9

• 1985Vincent Malamatenios Bishop of Apamea, 1954–2022
• 1 June 1997Gennadios Limouris Metropolitan of Sassima, 1951–2022
• 10 October 1998Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• 18 March 2000Theodoritos Polyzogopoulos Metropolitan of Laodicea, b. 1948
• 10 September 2000Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• 3 June 2001Tarasios Anton Metropolitan of Rodopolis, b. 1956
• 25 April 2004Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964
• 13 March 2011Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968
• 24 March 2013Nektarios Selalmatzides Archbishop of Anthidona, b. 1962

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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