Archbishop Iakovos na Amurka

Archbishop Iakovos na Arewa da Kudancin Amurka (Girkanci: Ιάωκβος; an haife shi Demetrios Koukouzis (Δημήτριος Κουκούζης);  29 ga Yuli, 1911 - 10 ga Afrilu, 2005) ya kasance shugaban majami'ar Orthodox ta Girka ta Arewa da Kudu Amurka (yanzu Archdiocese na Orthodox na Girka na Amurka) daga 1959 har zuwa murabus dinsa a 1996.

Farkon rayuwa
An haife shi a ƙauyen Agios Theodoros a tsibirin Imbros, Daular Ottoman (yanzu Turkiyya) a ranar 29 ga Yuli, 1911, ga Maria da Athanasios Koukouzis, yana da 'yan'uwa mata biyu Virginia da Chrysanthi da ɗan'uwa Panagiotis. Ya shiga makarantar tauhidin Ecumenical Patriarchal na Halki yana da shekaru 15. Bayan kammala karatunsa tare da manyan girmamawa, an naɗa Demetrios Koukouzis a matsayin mai hidima a 1934, yana ɗaukar sunan Ikklisiya Iakovos . Shekaru biyar bayan naɗa shi, Deacon Iakovos ya karɓi gayyatar yin aiki a matsayin Archdeacon ga marigayi Archbishop Athenagoras, Firayim Minista na Arewa da Kudancin Amurka, wanda daga baya (1949-72) ya zama Patriarch na Constantinople.

An naɗa shi firist a shekara ta 1940 a Lowell, Massachusetts, Amurka, ya yi aiki a St. George Church, Hartford, Connecticut, yayin da yake koyarwa da aiki a matsayin mataimakin dean na Makarantar tauhidin Orthodox ta Girka mai tsarki, sannan a Pomfret, Connecticut. A shekara ta 1941, an ba shi suna Preacher a Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity a Birnin New York kuma a lokacin rani na 1942 ya yi aiki a matsayin Dean na wucin gadi na St. Nicholas Church a St. Louis, Missouri . An nada shi Dean na Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral a Boston a 1942 kuma ya kasance a can har zuwa 1954. A shekara ta 1945, ya sami digiri na Master of Sacred Theology daga Jami'ar Harvard .

A shekara ta 1954, mahaifinsa na ruhaniya da kuma mai ba da shawara, Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, wanda ya yi aiki na shekaru hudu a matsayin wakilin kansa na Patriarchate a Majalisar Ikklisiya ta Duniya a Geneva. A ranar 14 ga Fabrairu, 1959, Majalisar Dattijai Mai Tsarki ta Ikilisiya ta zabi Iakovos a matsayin magajin Archbishop Michael, wanda ya mutu a ranar 15 ga Yuli, 1958, a matsayin shugaban Ikklisiyar Orthodox ta Girka ta Amurka. An naɗa shi a ranar 1 ga Afrilu, 1959, a Cocin Triniti Mai Tsarki, yana ɗaukar alhakin abin da ya girma zuwa sama da majami'u 500 a Amurka.[1]

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