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His Eminence '''Iakovos (Frantzis) of Mytiline''' is the [[Metropolitan]] of the [[Metropolis of Mytiline|Metropolis of Mytiline, Eressos and Plomariou]] under the administration of the [[Church of Greece]]. The [[Metropolis]] of Mytiline, Eressos and Plomariou is a metropolis in the New Lands of Greece, under the [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]]. [http://www.patriarchate.org/patriarchate/jurisdiction/administration/dioceses/new-lands]. Metr. Iakovos has been the ruling hierarch of the metropolis since 1988. 

==Life==
Constantine Frantzis was born in 1942 in the town of Agiassos on the island of Lesbos in the northeastern Aegean Sea. After having completed his secondary education, Constantine studied at the Higher Ecclesiastical Tutorial Kalamata. In 1962, he entered the [[Theological School of Halki]], graduating in 1966.

In June 1965, Constantine was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]], receiving the name Iakovos, followed in September with his ordination to the [[priest]]hood, Father Iakovos served as the Preacher at the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin and later of the Metropolis of Mytiline. In 1968, he was installed as [[abbot]] of the [[monastery]], a position he served in until 1970. During the following years, Fr. Iakovos served as [[Vicar]] General and Vicar of Mytiline as well as a number of other positions within the Metropolis of Mytiline including the position of [[chancellor]] from 1976.

In 1988, Fr. Iakovos was elected to the [[episcopate]] and [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] as Metropolitan of the Metropolis of Mytiline, Eressos and Plomariou on [[November 20]], 1988.

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==Sources==
*[http://www.immyt.net/diocese/bio.htm  Metropolitan's Biography]
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/Dioceses/dioceses.asp?mitra_id=51  Mytilene]
*[http://www.patriarchate.org/patriarchate/jurisdiction/administration/dioceses/new-lands/mytilene  Holy Metropolis of Mytilene]

[[Category: Bishops]]
[[Category: Bishops of Mytiline]]
[[Category: 20th-21st-century bishops]]