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Seraphim (Storheim) of Ottawa

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== Theological and Priestly Formation ==
In August 1978, Kenneth Storheim was received into Holy Orthodoxy with the name Seraphim at [http://www.sthermans.ca St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church] in Edmonton, accepting as his heavenly patron St. Seraphim of Sarov. Then he was admitted into [http://www.svots.edu St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary] in New York, where he studied towards received the Masters degree in Theology. He was ordained to the Holy Deaconate by Archbishop Sylvester at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on October 28, 1979 and to the Holy Priesthood by Metropolitan Theodosius in the chapel of Three Saints at St. Vladimir's Seminary on November 21,1979. He graduated as a Master of Divinity in 1981.
During the two latter years in the Seminary, Fr. Seraphim lived as a monk and spent several months at the New Valaamo Monastery in Finland, to where he was invited by the late Archbishop Paul of Finland. While being tonsured monastic he took as his protector St. Seraphim, the New Martyr of Constantinople.

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