Elisey (Ganaba)

Archbishop Elisey (Eliseus, secular name Ilya Vladimirovich Ganaba, Russian: Илья Владимирович Ганаба; 1 August 1962, Leningrad, USSR) is Archbishop of Sourozh, a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church that includes the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Ilya Ganaba was born on August 1, 1962 in Leningrad, RSFSR, Soviet Union (modern day Saint Petersburg, Russia). His father Vladimir Ganaba (b. 1934) was an archdeacon at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Podolsk in the Moscow Oblast. Later, his older brother, Alexander Ganaba (b. 1957), was an archpriest and dean at the same cathedral.

In 1971, Ilya Ganaba moved with his parents to Penza. There he attended school, graduating from high school in 1979. He also served as an episcopal subdeacon at the altar and sang in the choir of the Dormition Cathedral in Penza.

In 1980 Ilya Ganaba entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary, now the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. In 1982 he was accepted into the Leningrad Theological Academy, where the November 17, 1985 took monastic vows with name Eliseus in honor of St. Elisha. On November 22, 1985 he was ordained hierodeacon and January 18, 1986 he was ordained hieromonk. On June 20, 1987 he joined the brotherhood of St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow. In 1988 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Theological Academy.

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