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His Eminence [[Metropolitan]] '''Seraphim (Mentzelopoulos) of Piraeus''' (b.1956 in Athens) is the current metropolitan of the [[Metropolis of Piraeus]], [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] on January 21, 2001.
==Life==
Seraphim has studied Economics and Theology and received a license to practise law. He was tonsured a [[monk]] at the [[Holy Monastery of ?? Pentelis (Pentelis, Greece)| Holy Monastery of Pentelis]] and was elevated to deacon and presbyter by Archbishop Seraphim of Athens in 1980. In December 2000, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Holy Synod, elected him as Bishop of Christianoupoleos and assistant to His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos of Australia. He served the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia until 2002.
==Publications==
*[http://molonlabe70.blogspot.com/2007/11/letter-of-metropolitan-seraphim-of.html Letter of Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus, November 9, 2007]
*[http://www.impantokratoros.gr/2B2CE92A.en.aspx Letter of Metropolitan Seraphim to Roman Catholic Bishop of Syros Island], November 9, 2007.
==See also==
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==External links==
*[http://www.imp.gr/Ins/mitropoliti.htm Biography from the Metropolis of Piraeus webpage] (Greek)
*[http://orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/greece/current2.htm#nikandros_bishop_christianoupolis Listing] at the Orthodox Research Institute
[[Category:Bishops]]
