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Bishop Basil was tonsured a [[reader]] by the late Metropolitan [[Antony (Bashir) of New York]] at St. Michael Church in Monessen on [[October 27]], 1964, and was ordained to the [[subdeacon|subdiaconate]] and [[deacon|diaconate]] by Metropolitan [[Philip (Saliba) of New York]] at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church at the [[Antiochian Village]] in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, on [[September 30]], 1979. On [[January 27]], 1980, he was ordained to the [[priest]]hood by Metropolitan Philip at St. Anthony Church in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and on [[October 9]], 1988, he was elevated to the dignity of [[archimandrite]] by Metropolitan Philip at St. George Church in Wichita, Kansas. From [[July 1]], 1987, until his consecration to the episcopacy in 1992, he served as priest at St. George Church in Wichita, Kansas. During his pastorate the new church temple was erected, consecrated and elevated to the status of [[Cathedral]] on [[April 21]], 1991. He received monastic [[tonsure]] to the [[Lesser Schema]] ([[Monastic Ranks|Stavrophore]] or [[Mantiya]]) at the [[Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Maldon, Essex)|Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist]] in Tolleshunt Knight by Maldon, Essex, England, during the night between [[January 19]] and [[January 20|20]], 2003, at the hands of the monastery's [[abbot]], Archimandrite Kyrill.