Archbishop SERAPHIM

The Right Reverend SERAPHIM (Storheim), Bishop of Ottawa and the Archdiocese of Canada, was born in Edmonton, Alberta, of Norwegian and Scottish parents. A former Anglican rector and accomplished musician, he is also a graduate of St Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, New York. He has lived at New Valaam monastery in Finland, and served as a parish priest in communities throughout the United States and Canada. He was consecrated auxiliary Bishop of Edmonton in 1987, and became ruling Bishop of the Archdiocese in 1990. As member of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America, he has served in a number of administrative capacities for the Synod, and also traveled extensively in Russia, Ukraine, and throughout Europe. Although often on the road visiting the many and far-flung communities of the Archdiocese, his residence is an hour south of Ottawa, near Johnstown, at the Archdiocesan Centre 'Fair Haven'.