His Excellency Metropolitan Paļsios
of Tyana
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HIS EXCELLENCY
METROPOLITAN PAĻSIOS
OF TYANA
ABBOT OF THE SACRED PATRIARCHAL AND STAVROPEGIAL MONASTERY OF ST. IRENE CHRYSOVALANTOU IN ASTORIA, NEW YORK
BIOGRAPHY :
His Excellency Metropolitan Paļsios of Tyana, son of the late Maria and Frank Loulourgas was born in Pireus, Greece in 1945. Upon graduating from high school, he went on to Mount Athos (The Holy Mountain), where in 1963 he was ordained a deacon. Pursuing his educational studies at the University of Athens, he finished at the top of his class and continued on to graduate school in the United States, earning a Master of Theology. In 1972, he founded the Monastery of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou and its dependenceis. In 1997, he was accepted into the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and a year later, was unanimously elected by the Holy and Sacred Synod and then ordby the Holy and Sacred Synod. In 1998, His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew appointed him as the Abbot of the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou.
Address:
36-04 23rd Avenue
Astoria, NY 11105-1916
Tel. +1.718/626.62.25
Fax +1.718/626.76.69
E-mail: stirene@stirene.org
Web site: www.StIrene.org
Nameday: June 19
Date of ordination: April 11, 1998
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