Axios (Elect) !

At the Fall Meeting of the Local Archdiocesan Synod, which convened under the presidency of His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP Friday (10/19) in Naples, Florida, the following priests were elected for the sacred episcopacy in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America:

1 – ARCHIMANDRITE THOMAS JOSEPH of St Nicholas/Pinellas Park, FL, is Bishop Elect of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and the East.

2 – ARCHIMANDRITE RAFEEK MUFARRIJ of St Mary/Hunt Valley, MD, is Bishop Elect of the Diocese of Ottawa and Upstate New York.

3 – PRIEST MARK MAYMON of St George/Grand Rapids, MI, is Bishop Elect of the Diocese of Toledo and the Midwest.

No dates have yet been set for their consecrations.

May God preserve them & grant them many years!