June 17, 2019 - Metropolitan Nikitas Lulias of the Dardanelles has been unanimously elected as the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, an archdiocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since March of 2007, the newly elected archbishop has served as director of the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute (PAOI) in Berkeley, an affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union devoted to the study of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.
Archbishop Nikitas will oversee a diocese of more than 100 churches and monasteries in England, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of...