Peter L'Huillier

Peter L' Huillier (actually Paul L' Huillier, born December 3, 1926 in Paris, † November 19, 2007 in Bronxville, New York) was as Peter from 1981 to 2005 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 St. Dionysus Institute in Paris. On 30 August 1954 he received under the name of Peter the monk ordination, five days later, the monk ordination to deacon and a day later the ordination to the priesthood by Archbishop Boris monk.

After his elevation to the Archimandrite in 1960 came on 12 September 1968 Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg his episcopal consecration by Archbishop Nikodim of Leningrad and Anthony of Sourozh. He worked first as Bishop of Chersonese in the Exarchate of orthodox churches of Russian tradition in Western Europe. At the invitation of Metropolitan Theodosius Lazor he served from 1979 in the Orthodox Church in America and was immediately installed for two years as a ( Christmas ) Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York. In 1981, he replaced Metropolitan Theodosius from as Bishop of New York and New Jersey after the diocese Washington was founded as the seat of the Primate of the OCA. In 1990, his elevation to the 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 the Diocese of Washington and New York, and thus the situation of pre-1981 restored, but in 2009 the merger was reversed.

Peter was a professor at the Catholic University of Paris from 1966 to 1978. For even during his episcopate, and following his retirement Peter taught canon law at St. Vladimir 's Orthodox Theological Seminary. He was named after his death at St. Tikhon's Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, buried.