Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago, Michael Garmatis was born on April 4, 1928 and died on June 2, 2017

He was Metropolitan of Chicago under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople until his death on June 2, 2017.

He died at the Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago following surgical complications.

Iakovos Garmatis passed away at 89 years old.