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Metropolitan Audi with Susan Pompeo in 2019

Metropolitan Elias Audi (Arabic: المتروبوليت إلياس عوده; born 1941, Enfeh, Koura) became Metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch for the Archdiocese of Beirut in Lebanon in 1980.

Elias Audi was born in 1941, in the predominantly Eastern Orthodox village of Anfeh, El-Koura, north Lebanon. He has a B.A. in philosophy degree from Lebanon and a B.A. in theology from Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York, in 1969.

In 1969, he was ordained to the priesthood. In 1979, he was elected Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Beirut and appointed Patriarchal Vicar. He was elected by the Holy Antiochian Council on 5 February 1980. On 9 April 1980, he arrived to the Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut in Achrafieh to assume his post.

References

  1. "بيروت وتوابعها".
  2. ^ His Eminence Bishop Elias Audi, Metropolitan of Beirut for Greek Orthodox


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