On 28 March 2018 at 3:00 am,His Eminence Metropolitan Iakovos of Pringiponnisos (Princes Island,Turkey) departed this life at an Istanbul Hospital after a long illness.He was about 71.His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew served the trisagion memorial service at the Church of St.George in the Patriarchal compound,the Phanar.*
Born in Constantinople,Metropolitan Iakovos (Sofroniadis) attended the Zografio Gymnasium (high school) and subsequently entered Halki Theological School.On 14 September 1969,he was ordained a hierodeacon with the name Iakovos.Upon graduating from Halki in 1970,he was appointed Patriarchal Deacon and Rapporteur (researcher) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.In 1974,he was promoted to Secretary of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate.Elected Metropolitan of Laodicea in 1984 and a Hierarch of the Ecumenical Throne in 1994,he was transferred to the Metropolis of Princes Islands in the Sea of Marmara,near Istanbul.*
In the course of his career,His Eminence was the author of many articles,studies and speeches in the journals of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.Basically,he was a scholar in residence and was honoured by several Churches,including those of Jeruslaem;Russia;Greece;Romania;and Georgia;as well as many Metropolises and Institutions.In 2011,he was elected Associate Member of the historic Literary Association of Parnassos.He was also conferred with an Honourary Doctorate by the Democritus University of Thrace.
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