On June 4, 2017, on the feast of Pentecost (Troitsa), Hegumen Andrei
(Erastov) was consecrated into the episcopacy of the Russian Orthodox
Church Abroad. Performing the Sacrament were Archbishop of Syracuse and
St. Nicholas Andronik and Archbishop of St.
Petersburg and Northern Russia Sofroniy. A decree signed by Bishop of
Trenton and North America Stefan and Archbishop Andronik designated the
title of the new ROCA bishop as Bishop Andrei of Australia and
Yarraville (download decree attached. Below is a brief
biography of Bishop Andrei (Erastov)).
Another report of the chirotonia can be viewed on
http://vishegorod.ru/ in Russian.
Biography:
Born in Moscow in 1960. Entered the Holy Trinity Seminary in
Jordanville, NY, in 1979 and received a BA in 1982. Received his tonsure
as a monk in 1985, and ordained a deacon in 1989. Made a hieromonk in
1993, he was a member of the brotherhood at the Holy
Trinity Seminary from 1979 – 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he served at a
parish in the south of France as a member of the Diocese of France of
the TOC of Greece (under Archbishop Macarius). From 2009 to the present,
Hegumen Andrei is the rector of the parish of
the Holy Martyrs of Vilnius in Yarraville, Australia.
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