New Metropolitan on the See of Tripoli and Kura

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The Holy Synod of the Church of Antioch, united on Tuesday, October 6th 2009, elected Archimandrite Ephraim (Kyriakos), abbot of the Archangel Michael -

Baskinta, as the new Metropolitan on the See of Tripoli and Kura, Lebanon.

Father Ephraim was born in Beirut, Lebanon, has a diploma in telecommunications from the Saint Joseph University (Beirut). He studied Theology first at the Saint John of Damascus school of Theology and completed them in the Academy of Theology of Thessaloniki, Greece. He stayed for many years in Mount Athos at the Saint Paul monastery where he received the Great Schema by the Abbot of the monastery Elder Parthenios giving him the name of Saint Ephraim the Syriac.

The late Antiochian Patriarch Elias IV asked him to return to Lebanon to re-inaugurate the Faculty of Theology of Saint John of Damascus in Balamand (which was closed during the Lebanese civil war) and was Dean from 1978 till 1981.

Then he started monastic life in the monastery of the Archangel Michael in Baskinta becoming a Spiritual Father of may monasteries, and lay people.

He also wrote and translated many orthodox spiritual books.

MAY HIS YEARS BE MANY O LORD

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