HIS GRACE
BISHOP SERAPHIM OF APOLLONIA

ASSISTANT OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA

BIOGRAPHY :

His Grace Bishop Seraphim of Apollonia was born in 1949 in Athens. After the completion of his secondary education at Halandri of Attica, he attended and studied Theology at the university of Salonika. He continued with post-graduate studies at the faculty of Practical Theology at the same University.

He was ordained Deacon in 1975 and priest at the end of the same year, serving for four years at the Holy Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. In 1980 he was appointed to the Holy Metropolis of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, where he served for six years as parish priest of the Church of Saint Paraskevi.

In 1986 His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos of Australia invited him to the Fifth Continent and appointed him parish priest at the Archdiocesan Church of St. Eustathios, next to His Grace the Assistant Bishop of Ezekiel of Derbi, in Melbourne.

On the 12th of March 1991 he was unanimously elected a Bishop, with the honorary title of Apollonia. He serves in the First Archdiocesan District of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, based in Sydney, as Assistant Bishop to the Archbishop.

Address:

242 Cleveland St.
REDFERN, N.S.W. 2016
Australia
Tel. (02) 9698 5066
Fax (02) 9698 5368
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Nameday: December 4

Date of ordination: March 31, 1991