Job Getcha
| Job of Telmessos | |
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| formerly ruling Archbishop of the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe | |
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| Installed | December 5, 2013 |
| Term ended | November 28, 2015 |
| Predecessor | Gabriel of Comane |
| Successor | John of Chariopoulis |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 20, 2003 |
| Consecration | November 30, 2013 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Ihor Wladimir Getcha |
| Born |
31 January 1974 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba |
Job of Telmessos (born Ihor Wladimir Getcha, Russian: Игорь Владимирович Геча; January 31, 1974 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is an Eastern Orthodox Archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who was elected to lead the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe in November 2013.
A Ukrainian Canadian, Ihor Getcha was educated at Collège Français (Montreal) and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. He studied theology at St. Andrew's College, Manitoba and the , Paris from which he was awarded a doctorate, jointly with the Institut Catholique de Paris, in 2003.
Upon completing his secondary education, he completed post-secondary studies in Humanities at the University of Manitoba and Theology at St. Andrew’s College in Winnipeg and at St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, where in 1998 he received his master’s diploma. In 2003, he received his doctorate diploma from the above Institute in cooperation with the Catholic University of Paris and in 2012 he got his Habilitation in Theology at the University of Lorraine in Metz. He was tonsured a Monk and ordained Deacon of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada at Saint Sophia Cathedral, Montreal in 1996 by Metropolitan Wasyly of Winnipeg, subsequently serving in Paris. In 1998, he was tonsured in the Small Schema at the Monastery of St. Anthony the Great in Saint-Laurent-en-Royans, France and in 2003, in Paris, Archbishop Gabriel of Comana ordained him as Presbyter, eventually receiving the title of Archimandrite. Between 2001-2008 he lectured at St. Sergius Institute, where he has also served as Dean (2005-2008). Since 2003, he teaches liturgical theology at the Catholic University of Paris. In 2009 he was elected Professor of Liturgical and of Dogmatic Theology at the Institute of Graduate Studies of Orthodox Theology in Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland, where he teaches to this day.
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