Iakovos, Bishop of Traianoupolis († 1859)

Iakovos, Bishop of Traianoupolis († 1859)

Iakovos was born in Astypalaia. A learned man, he joined the brotherhood of Vatopaidi Monastery. He was a prohegumenos (chief overseer) of the Monastery and, from 1819, assistant to Grigorios of Irenopolis and Vatopaidi in the administration of the metochia in Romainia. In 1840 he was appointed abbot of the Monastery of Rachitoasa in Romania. In 1857 he was elected Bishop of Trajanopolis and consecrated in the katholikon church of Vatopaidi Monastery by the former metropolitans, Grigorios of Adrianople, Iosif of Varna and Meletios of Loftsos, all of whom had retired to the Monastery and became members of the Brotherhood. He was immediately sent as general administrator to the metochia in Romania, where he died in 1859.