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Elias Audi
View on WikipediaMetropolitan Elias Audi (Arabic: المتروبوليت إلياس عوده;[1] born 1941, Enfeh, Koura) is the current Metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch for the Archdiocese of Beirut in Lebanon since 1980.
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Audi was born in 1941, in the predominantly Eastern Orthodox village of Anfeh, El-Koura, north Lebanon. He has a B.A. in philosophy degree from Lebanon and a B.A. in theology from Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York, in 1969.[2]
In 1969, he was ordained to the priesthood. In 1979, he was elected Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Beirut and appointed Patriarchal Vicar. He was elected by the Holy Antiochian Council on 5 February 1980. On 9 April 1980, he arrived to the Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut in Achrafieh to assume his post.[2]
In 2001, he attended a delegation held by the World Council of Churches in expressing solidarity after the September 11 attacks.[3] In May 2002 he launched a new development project for Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut aimed at opening a trauma center and a children's hospital.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "بيروت وتوابعها".
- ^ a b His Eminence Bishop Elias Audi, Metropolitan of Beirut for Greek Orthodox
- ^ Jenks, Philip E. "International ecumenical delegation to be a 'Living Letter' to US churches". wcc-usa.org/. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ^ Rayes, Salam E. "Saint George Hospital University Medical Center" (PDF). Saint George Hospital University Medical Center. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
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