Alexander Golitzin (bishop)


Archbishop Alexander of Toledo, born Alexander Golitzin is the current Archbishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese and Dallas and the South of the Orthodox Church in America.

Biography

Alexander Yuryevich Golitzin was born in Burbank, California on 27 May, 1948. Through his father he is a member of the Golitsyn family. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkely in English and received a Master of Divinity from Saint Vladimir's Seminary. He attended Oxford university in 1973, and two years in Mount Athos, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1980. He was ordained into the deaconate in July 1982, into the priesthood in 1984, and tonsured as a monk in 1986. In 1989, he taught at Marquette University in the Department of Theology, specializing in Jewish and Christian mysticism, until April 2022.
In 2011, he was elected as the Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese and consecrated on May 5, 2012, succeeding Archbishop Kyrill Yonchev who died in 2007. On 30 March 2016, he was elected as the Bishop of Dallas and the South, succeeding Dmitri (Royster), who had died in 2011. He is the second Archbishop of both dioceses. He was elevated to the rank of Archbishop in Spring of 2017.
On 22 July 2013, he was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir in the second class.

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