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) Ilya was born on [[August 1]], 1962 in Leningrad, USSR. His father Vladimir Ganaba was an [[archdeacon]] at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Podolsk in the Moscow Oblast. Later, his older brother, Alexander Ganaba, was an served as [[archpriest]] and [[dean]] at the same [[cathedral]].
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His Eminence Archbishop '''Elisey''' (secular name '''Ilya Vladimirovich Ganaba''', {{lang-ru|Илья Владимирович Ганаба}}) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. Hу He is currently is Archbishop of the Hague and Netherlands. During 2007-2017 he served ruling hierarch of the [[Diocese of Sourozh]] in Great Britain and Ireland.
== Life==
In 1971, Ilya moved with his parents to Penza, in the Penza Oblast. There he attended school, graduating from high school in 1979. He also served as an episcopal [[subdeacon]] at the [[altar]] and sang in the choir of the Dormition Cathedral in Penza.
From [[December 27]], 1988 to [[October 5]], 1992, Fr. Eliseus served as Deputy Chief of the [[Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem]]. On [[January 20]], 1994, he was appointed head of the overseas sector institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church.
By the [[Pascha]]l season of 1997 Metropolitan [[Kyrill I (Gundyayev) of Moscow|Kyrill]] of Smolensk and Kaliningrad raised elevated Fr. Eliseus to the dignity of [[archimandrite]].
On [[October 7]], 2000, Fr. Eliseus was appointed the Representative of Patriarchate of Moscow at to the Patriarchate of Antioch in Damascus, Syria. On [[March 12]], 2002, Fr. Eliseus was appointed Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem.
On [[November 26]], 2006 at the Cathedral of [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow)|Christ the Saviour]] in Moscow Archimandrite Elisey was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] Bishop of Bogorodsk, as assistant [[bishop]] to [[Archbishop]] [[Innocent (Vasilyev) of Vilnius|Innokenty]] of Korsun. On [[December 27]], 2007, Bp. Elisey was appointed by the Holy Synod in Moscow as the diocesan Bishop of Sourozh.