Serge (Konovaloff)

Serge Konovalov
Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe
Installed 1993
Term ended 2003
Predecessor George Wagner
Successor Gabriel of Comane
Orders
Ordination 1980
Consecration June 27 1993
Personal details
Born July 8, 1941
Leuven, Belgium
Died January 22, 2003
Paris, France

Sergius of Evkarpia (born Serge Konovalov: July 8, 1941 in Leuven, Belgium January 22, 2003 in Paris, France) was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who led the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe from 1993 to 2003.

Educated at the University of Louvain, he was ordained as a married deacon in 1968, and became a priest in 1980. Following the death of his wife, by whom he had three children, he became a monk in 1990. In the same year he was elected to be the successor of the late Archbishop George Wagner as head of the exarchate. He was consecrated bishop in Paris on June 27, 1993. He died in Paris on January 22, 2003.

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