Archimandritis Iakovos Kanakis

The Very Reverend Archimandrite Ioannis (Iakovos) Kanakis was born in Athens in 1975. After completing his general education there, he was admitted to and graduated from the Faculty of Theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He then pursued and completed postgraduate studies, earning a Master's degree in Biblical Studies. In 2017, he successfully completed his doctoral dissertation at the same university. He was ordained as a deacon and priest (archimandrite) by the late Metropolitan Bartholomew of Megara and Salamis. In 2006, he was appointed as the Protosyncellus in the Holy Metropolis of Gortynia and Megalopolis by Metropolitan and Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Ieremias Fountas.