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[[Image:Bishop THOMAS.jpg|thumb|right|Bp. Thomas of Charleston, Oakland and the EastMid-Atlantic]]His Grace the Right Reverend Bishop '''Thomas (Joseph) of Charleston, Oakland and the EastMid-Atlantic''' (b. 1953) is a [[diocese|diocesan]] [[bishop]] of the [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America]]. (''Oakland'' refers to Oakland, Pennsylvania, a borough of Pittsburgh and the location of the cathedral for the Antiochian Diocese of Oakland and the Eastdiocese. The other diocesan see is Charleston, West Virginia.)
==Life==
On [[February 15]], 2004, Fr. Thomas was elevated to the rank of [[archimandrite]] by Bp. Antoun, and on [[December 5]], 2004, he was consecrated to the [[bishop|episcopacy]] by [[Patriarch]] [[Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch]] in Damascus, Syria.
Bp. Thomas was enthroned as Bishop of Oakland and the East at St. George Cathedral in Pittsburgh (Borough of Oakland), Pennsylvania, on [[May 6]], 2005. In August of 2006, Bishop Thomas was awarded a Doctorate in Education from California Coast University. In October of 2006, the Antiochian parish in Charleston, West Virginia, was elevated to a cathedral, thus adding another see to Bp. Thomas's diocese and renaming it to the ''Diocese of Charleston, Oakland and the Mid-Atlantic''.
His Grace's residence is at the [[Antiochian Village]] in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.
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