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Metropolitan '''Basilio (Grillo Miceli)''' is an Italian Orthodox bishop who claims the title of [[Metropolitan]] of [[Ravenna (Italy)|Ravenna]], L'Aquila and Italy.
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Metropolitan '''Basilio (Grillo Miceli)''' was an Italian Orthodox bishop who claimed the title of [[Metropolitan]] of [[Ravenna (Italy)|Ravenna]], L'Aquila and Italy.
  
 
==Life==
 
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In 2008 he joined the [[Chiesa Ortodossa in Italia|Orthodox Church in Italy]], as vicar of [[Antonio (de Rosso) of Ravenna|Metropolitan Antonio]] as Archbishop of Florence. After Metropolitan Antonio's death, the [[Bulgarian Alternative Synod]] refused to recognize him as [[Primate]] and he left the Church to create a new "Orthodox Church of Italy" (''Chiesa Ortodossa d'Italia'').
 
In 2008 he joined the [[Chiesa Ortodossa in Italia|Orthodox Church in Italy]], as vicar of [[Antonio (de Rosso) of Ravenna|Metropolitan Antonio]] as Archbishop of Florence. After Metropolitan Antonio's death, the [[Bulgarian Alternative Synod]] refused to recognize him as [[Primate]] and he left the Church to create a new "Orthodox Church of Italy" (''Chiesa Ortodossa d'Italia'').
His Synod has two bishops.
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His Synod had two bishops. He died in Rome on [[December 19]], 2021, following Covid-19 complications.  
  
 
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Metropolitan Basilio (Grillo Miceli) was an Italian Orthodox bishop who claimed the title of Metropolitan of Ravenna, L'Aquila and Italy.

Life

Metr. Basilio was born on July 18, 1937, in Vittoria (near Ragusa, Sicily). In 1981 he was ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1995 he became bishop of Ostia under the Autonomous Orthodox Church of Milan, Western Europe and Canada - Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate. In 1996 he became Archbishop of Ostia.

In 2008 he joined the Orthodox Church in Italy, as vicar of Metropolitan Antonio as Archbishop of Florence. After Metropolitan Antonio's death, the Bulgarian Alternative Synod refused to recognize him as Primate and he left the Church to create a new "Orthodox Church of Italy" (Chiesa Ortodossa d'Italia). His Synod had two bishops. He died in Rome on December 19, 2021, following Covid-19 complications.