HIS EMINENCE
METROPOLITAN MELITON
OF PHILADELPHIA

BIOGRAPHY :

His Eminence Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia (in the world Dimitrios Karras) was elected in 1990) a Metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and serves as the Coordinator of the Secretariats of the Patriarchate. He is also a member of the Holy Synod and the godson of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. Metr. Meliton was born in Imvros (Gokceada), Turkey, on March 14, 1951. He holds a B.A.(1974) and a Ph.D. (1986) in Theology from the Theological School of Thessaloniki. He was ordained as deacon in 1974 by his Elder, Meliton, Metropolitan of Chalcedon, receiving the name Meliton, and immediately was appointed Codicographer of the Holy and Sacred Synod. He served as Under-Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate from 1984 and as Chief Secretary from 1987 till 2005 when he resigned and he was appointed as the Coordinator of all the Secretariats of the Patriarchate. He received post graduate education in France and England and participated in Patriarchal representation and delegations in Inter-Orthodox and Inter-Church Conferences. From 1987 to 1990, he accompanied Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrius on his official visits to other Orthodox churches.

Address:
Rim Patrikhanesi - Haliç Fener
34220 Istanbul

Türkiye
Tel. +90.212/635.40.22
Fax +90.212/534.90.37
E-mail : melito@superonline.com

Nameday: March 9

Date of ordination: October 28, 1990