Jordanville Seminary Rector consecrated as Bishop of Syracuse

On February 12, Archimandrite Luke (Murianka), Abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY, and Rector of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary, was consecrated as Bishop of Syracuse, Vicar of the Eastern American Diocese.Archimandrite Luke was born in 1951 in Philadelphia. He studied at the Jordanville Seminary and Syracuse University. He pronounced his monastic vows in 1980 and was ordained a priest by Archbishop Laurus (Škurla, +2008). Since 1979, he