Alexei (Trader)

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The Right Reverend

Bishop Alexei

Bishop of Sitka and Alaska

Diocese| Diocese of Sitka and Alaska
Other posts| Bishop-elect of Bethesda, Auxiliary to the Metropolitan for Stavropegial Institutions[1]
Orders
Ordination| March 27, 2022 (Bishop)
Consecration| January 25, 2020[2]
Personal details
Birth name| Alexis Trader
Born|  (1965-02-24) February 24, 1965 (age 60)
Dover, Delaware, U.S.
Nationality| American
Denomination| Orthodox Church in America
Occupation| Bishop
Alma mater| Franklin and Marshal College, University of Chicago, Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, University of Thessaloniki[3]

Bishop Alexei (Secular name Alexis Trader; Born February 24, 1965 in Dover, Delaware) is an American Hieromonk currently serving as Bishop of Sitka and Alaska. Alexei served as a Patristics Lecturer at the Monastery of Saint Tikhon for five years.

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Early life[edit]

Alexei was born on February 24, 1965, in Dover, Delaware into a religious Christian family. He attended a Roman Catholic school as a child in Delaware.

## Career[edit]

In 1990 Alexis started his monastic life at Saint Tikhon's Monastery. There, Alexis would become a lecturer of patristics. After teaching at the Monastery, He moved to the Monastery of Karakallou at the holy mountain of Mount Athos, Greece in 1995. While at Mount Athos he was ordained a deacon in 1996 and later into holy priesthood, becoming a Hieromonk in 2001.

In 2018 Alexei received an invitation to return to America by Metropolitan Tikhon, with the blessing of Abbot Archimandrite Philotheos. He returned to Saint Tikhon's Monastery as a residence and lecturer. On November 12, 2019, he was elected Bishop-elect of Bethesda and Auxiliary to the Metropolitan for Stavropegial Institutions by the Holy Synod of Bishops.[1] On March 15, 2022, Alexei was elected Bishop of Sitka and Alaska.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Holy Synod Elects Auxiliary Bishops". www.oca.org. November 12, 2019.
2. ↑ "The Episcopal Consecration of Bishop Alexis of Bethesda". www.oca.org. January 29, 2020.
3. ↑ "Office of the Episcopacy - Diocese of Sitka and Alaska - Anchorage, AK".
4. ↑ "Holy Synod elects His Grace Bishop Alexis as Bishop of Sitka and Alaska". www.oca.org. March 15, 2022.

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