His Eminence Archbishop Joseph was elected Antiochian Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America by the Holy Synod of Antioch, led by His Beatitude Patriarch John X, meeting in Balamand, Lebanon today (July 3, 2014), the Antiochian website reports. He succeeds Metropolitan Philip, who died of a heart attack at the age of 82 last March.
His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph was consecrated to the Holy Episcopacy on June 30, 1991 at the St. Mary Cathedral in Damascus, Syria, after many years of serving as a deacon and priest. His Eminence was born in Damascus in 1950. He was consecrated with the title Bishop of Katana in Syria, and served as Patriarchal Assistant and Secretary of the Holy Synod of Antioch.
In 1995, he was sent by Patriarch Ignatius IV of blessed memory to America. Here, Bishop Joseph was assigned to the West Coast Chancery by Metropolitan Philip of blessed memory. After self-rule was awarded to America's Antiochian Archdiocese, Bishop Joseph was enthroned at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral by Metropolitan Philip as the first Bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the West on September 12, 2004.
On December 11, 2011, at the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in the Patriarchal Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand in Lebanon, Patriarch Ignatius elevated Bishop Joseph to the rank of Archbishop, in honor of his many years of service as a bishop both in America's Archdiocese and in the Patriarchate of Antioch.
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