Peter L'Huillier

Archbishop Peter (actually Paul L'Huillier ; born December 3, 1926 in Paris , † November 19, 2007 in Bronxville , New York ) was Archbishop of New York and New Jersey of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

Life

Paul L'Huillier converted to Orthodoxy in 1945 during his stay at the St. Dionysus Institute in Paris. On August 30, 1954 he was ordained a monk under the name Peter, five days later he was ordained a monk deacon and one day later he was ordained a monk priest by Archbishop Boris.

After his elevation to Archimandrite in 1960, he was ordained bishop on September 12, 1968 in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg by Archbishop Nikodim of Leningrad , Philareth of Kiev and Anthony von Sourozh . He initially worked as Bishop of Chersonese in the exarchate of the Orthodox communities of Russian tradition in Western Europe . At the invitation of Metropolitan Theodosius Lazor, he served in the Orthodox Church in America from 1979 and was immediately installed as (consecration) bishop of Brooklyn in the Diocese of New York for two years. In 1981 he replaced Metropolitan Theodosius as Bishop of New York and New Jersey after the Diocese of Washington was established as the seat of the OCA's primate. In 1990 he was raised to archbishop by the Holy Synod .

After his retirement on April 30, 2005, the Diocese of New York and New Jersey was merged with the Diocese of Washington to form the Diocese of Washington and New York, thus restoring the situation from before 1981, but the merger was reversed in 2009.

Peter was professor at the Catholic University in Paris from 1966 to 1978. During his episcopate and after his retirement, Peter taught canon law at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary . He was buried in St. Tikhon's Convent in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, after his death.

Web links

• Entry on orthodoxwiki.org
• http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/oca/former_hierarchs.htm#peter_arch