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In 2014: With the financial aid of the [[Fund For Assistance]], Fr Seraphim underwent multiple aggressive rounds of chemotherapy. He returned to serving at Pascha 2014.
 
In 2014: With the financial aid of the [[Fund For Assistance]], Fr Seraphim underwent multiple aggressive rounds of chemotherapy. He returned to serving at Pascha 2014.
  
In Bright Week 2015, with Bp George's transfer to the Australian and New Zealand Diocese, Fr Seraphim was elevated to Archimandrite and installed as abbot of Holy Cross.
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On Bright Monday 2015, with Bp George's transfer to the Australian and New Zealand Diocese, Fr Seraphim was elevated to Archimandrite and installed as abbot of Holy Cross.
  
 
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Revision as of 23:37, April 15, 2015

Hegumen Seraphim (secular name James Voepel[1]) is the Deputy Abbot of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross, an English-speaking male monastery in the Eastern American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Biographical sketch

In 1998 he was elected deputy rector of the Holy Cross Monastery. After relocation from the American Midwest to the rural mountains of West Virginia, where Fr. Seraphim oversaw the construction of the monastery in its current location in West Virginia.[2].

In 2003: (At this time, Fr Seraphim was already a hieromonk and the superior at the Hermitage.

On 14 October, 2008, Hieromonk Seraphim was elevated to Hegumen.

In 2009: Hermitage of the Holy Cross became an independent monastery. Bp George (who was already both the spiritual father of the monastery and in residence at the monastery) was made abbot; Hegumen Seraphim was made deputy abbot.

In 2011 Fr Seraphim diagnosed with kidney cancer. In 2012: Fr Seraphim diagnosed with squamous cell cancer in his right tonsil. Subsided in 2012, reappeared in Oct 2013.

December 9 2013 Fr. Seraphim completed his chemotherapy and radiation treatment on Monday. "Though he did have some painful side effects, they were not nearly as severe as was expected," explained monastery dean Hieromonk Alexander (Frizzell). "Every day, Fr. Seraphim read an akathist to the Holy Great Martyr & Healer Panteleimon, and we know that the heavenly intercessor of our monastery looked after Fr. Seraphim and eased his sufferings. The doctors were amazed at how well he did throughout the treatment process and state that he has a ninety-percent chance of full recovery."[3].

In 2014: With the financial aid of the Fund For Assistance, Fr Seraphim underwent multiple aggressive rounds of chemotherapy. He returned to serving at Pascha 2014.

On Bright Monday 2015, with Bp George's transfer to the Australian and New Zealand Diocese, Fr Seraphim was elevated to Archimandrite and installed as abbot of Holy Cross.

References


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Seraphim (Voepel)
Preceded by:
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Superior of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross
A dependency of Holy Trinity Monastery

????-2009
Succeeded by:
Bp George
as Abbot of an independent monastery
Preceded by:
Bp George
Abbot of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross
2015-present
Succeeded by:
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