Metropolitan '''Basilios (Qoudsiah)''' or '''Basil (Kodseie)''' is bishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, the Metropolitan of the [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines|Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines]]. He is fluent in Arabic, English and Greek, and he celebrates his name day on [[January 1]] for St [[Basil the Great]].

Born in Latakia, Syria, to George (reposed Dec 2014<ref>http://www.antiochianarch.org.au/NewsItem.aspx?i=524</ref>)and his wife, the future Metropolitan studied engineering at Teshreen University, graduating in 1999 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. He then went on to study at St John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand, Lebanon, where he graduated with a Master of Theology in 2003. In the same year, he was ordained to the diaconate, before being ordained to the priesthood and elevated to Archimandrite in 2005 by Metr [[Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo, Alexandretta and Dependencies|Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo]], and serving in that diocese as Archdiocesan Vicar until 2010.