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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. He is currently Archbishop of the Hague and Netherlands. During 2007-2017 he served ruling hierarch of the [[Diocese of Sourozh]] in Great Britain and Ireland.

== Life==
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, served as [[archpriest]] and [[dean]] at the same [[cathedral]].

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.

He entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary in 1980 before he was accepted in 1982 into the [[St. Petersburg Theological Academy|Leningrad Theological Academy]]. While attending the academy Ilya took [[monasticism|monastic]] vows on [[November 17]], 1985 with name Eliseus (Elisey), in honor of St. [[Elijah|Elisha]]. On [[November 22]], 1985, he was [[ordination|ordained]] [[hierodeacon]] and then [[hieromonk]] on [[January 18]], 1986.

On [[June 20]], 1987, he joined the brotherhood of [[St. Daniel Monastery (Moscow)|St. Daniel Monastery]] in Moscow and continued his studies at the [[Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary|Moscow Theological Academy]] from which he graduated in 1988.

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 elevated Fr. Eliseus to the dignity of [[archimandrite]].

On [[October 7]], 2000, Fr. Eliseus was appointed the Representative of Patriarchate of Moscow 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.

On [[February 1]], 2010, Bp. Elisey was elevated to the rank of Archbishop by Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow.

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==Sources==
*[http://www.sourozh.org/archbishop-of-sourozh/ Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh]
*[http://www.sgois.co.uk/orthodox_news.html  Bishop of Sourozh]
*[http://www.sourozh.org/archbishop-of-sourozh-rus/  Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh] In Russian

[[Category: Bishops]]
[[Category:21st-century bishops]]
[[Category: Bishops of Bogorodsk]]
[[Category: Bishops of Sourozh]]
[[Category: St. Petersburg Academy Graduates]]