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His Eminence Archbishop Alexander
Archbishop of Dallas & the South | office@dosoca.org
Archbishop Alexander (Golitzin) was born in Burbank, CA in 1948 and raised attending Saint Innocent Church, Tarzana, CA. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Divinity degree from Saint Vladimir’s Seminary. He spent seven years pursuing doctoral studies at Oxford University in England under His Eminence, Metropolitan Kallistos [Ware]. During this time, he also spent two years in Greece, including one year at Simonos Petras Monastery on Mount Athos.
His Eminence received his DPhil in 1980, ordained to the diaconate in 1982, the priesthood in 1984, and tonsured a monastic in 1986. In 1989, he took a teaching position with the Theology Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee WI, a position he held until April 2012. In October 2011 he was elected Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese and consecrated May 5, 2012. On March 30, 2016 he was elected Bishop of Dallas, the South, and the Bulgarian Diocese. In 2017 the Holy Synod elevated him to the rank of Archbishop.