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Recent Ordinations

On 24 May 2015, at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Abbassia, Cairo, at the hands of Abba Seraphim acting as a co-consecrator, there were consecrated to the Sacred Order of the Episcopate, Father  Bishoy Al-Muharaqi, as Bishop Boktr, General Bishop of Al Wadi Al Gadeed Diocese; Father Bakhoum Al-Bakhoumi, as Bishop Youakim, General Bishop of Esna and Armant; Father Ilarion Ava Mina, as Bishop Ilarion, General Bishop of Ezbet El Haganna, Almaza and Nasr City; Father Iklemandos Ava Mina, as Bishop Iklemandos, General Bishop of East Canal; Father Apollo Anba Bishoy, as Bishop Mark, General Bishop of Paris, France; and Father Hermina Al-Baramousi as Bishop Hermina, General Bishop of Ain Shams and El Matareya.

On 13 June 2015, Philip John Turner was ordained a Reader at London Mission of SS. George & Paul the Hermit, worshipping in St. George-in-the-East, Cannon Street Road, Shadwell, London, E1 0BH, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 11 July 2015, Dominic George Doughty Prewett was ordained a Reader in the Undercroft Chapel of the Virgin Mary in Glastonbury Abbey, in the County of Somerset, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 29 August 2015, Nahom Mussie, Habtom Kibron, Ebenezer Woldu and Msgna Gebrhiwot were each ordained as an Epsaltos at St. Charles Borromea Roman Catholic Church, St. Charles Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S9 3WU, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 6 December 2015, James Maskery was ordained a Deacon at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 1 May 2016, James Maskery was ordained Archdeacon at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 25 September 2016, Aleksander Leonidas Kliszewicz, (Monk Alexis Raphael in religion) was ordained a Reader at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 15 April 2017, Antony Robin Alan Westwood was ordained a Deacon at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 1 January 2017 Monk Alexis Raphael was ordained a Subdeacon at the Church of St. Mary & St. Felix, Babingley, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 29 January 2017, Athanasius Hall was ordained a Subdeacon at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 29 January 2017, Antony Robin Alan Westwood was ordained a Priest at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 30 July 2017, Athanasius Hall was ordained a Deacon at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 30 July 2017, James Maskery was ordained a Priest at the Church of St. Mark & St. Hubert, Cusworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 7 August 2017, Mark Robert William John Saunders was ordained as Archdeacon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gayton Road, King’s Lynn, PE30 4ET following the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Mary & St. Felix, Babingley, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, at the hands of Abba Seraphim.

On 29 October 2017 Father David Colin Wilfred Seeds was consecrated to the Sacred Order of the Episcopate at the hands of Abba Seraphim. acting solus,  and was enthroned as Bishop Titular of Priddy & Auxiliary to the Primatial Throne of Glastonbury.

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