Metropolitan Elias Audi (Arabic: المتروبوليت إلياس عوده;[1] born 1941, Enfeh, Koura) became Metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch for the Archdiocese of Beirut in Lebanon in 1980.
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Elias 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]
References
edit- https://web.archive.org/web/20080820002722/http://www.wcc-usa.org/resources/living-letters/05-nov-01.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071021002437/http://www.stgeorgehospital.org/STGHB/PDF/june2002%20issue4.pdf