Elias Audi

Metropolitan Elias Audi is the current Metropolitan bishop of the Greek [Orthodox Church of Antioch] for the Archdiocese of Beirut in Lebanon since 1980.

Biography

Audi was born in 1941, in the predominantly Eastern [Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon|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.
In 2001, he attended a delegation held by the World Council of Churches in expressing solidarity after the September 11 attacks. In May 2002 he launched a new development project for Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut aimed at opening a trauma center and a children's hospital.