The Holy Synod of the Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church has formally elected Greek-American Archimandrite Grigorios (Tatsis) as Bishop of Nyssa and the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese. Ordained to the priesthood in 2007, prior to his nomination and election to the episcopacy Bishop-elect Gregory served as a parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta for a little under a year and a half.
The date of the bishop-elect's consecration, to be held at the diocesan cathedral in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has yet to be determined. More here.
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A Greek, I see. I wonder what the Carpatho-Russians make of that. Is he au fait with their traditions and customs? Presumably he will be willing to familiarise himself with them.
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Indeed - it'll be interesting to see how it all works out. Maybe they'll end up in the OCA after all ;-). (Thank God he had the decency to translate his name into English - I'm getting tired of all these convertsy/Greeks/Russians who think you have to transliterate your name from Greek/Slavonic for it to be really Orthodox.)
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