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[[Image:Meliton Karas.jpg|right|frame|Metr. Meliton]]His Eminence the Most Reverend '''Meliton (Karas), Metropolitan of Philadelphia''' (elected 1990), is an a [[auxiliary bishopMetropolitan]] of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] and serves as the coordinator Coordinator of the secretariats of Secretariats of the patriarchatePatriarchate. He is also a member of the [[Holy Synod]] and the [[godson ]] of Ecumenical Patriarchate Patriarch [[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople|Bartholomew I]].

==Life==Metr. Meliton was born in Imvros (Gokceada), Turkey, on [[March 14]], 1951. He graduated holds a B.A.(1974) and a Ph.D. (1986) in Theology from the Theological School of Thessaloniki from which he also received his Ph.D. in 1986. He was [[ordination|ordained]] as [[deacon]] in 1974 by his Elder, Meliton, Metropolitan of Chalcedon, and as [[priestChalcedon]] in 1990, receiving the name Meliton, and immediately was appointed Codicographer of the Holy and Sacred Synod. He served as Under-Secretary of the Holy Synod of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate ]] from 1984 and as Chief Secretary from 1987 till 2005 when he resigned and he was appointed to accept appointment as the Coordinator of all the Secretariats of the Patriarchate. He received post graduate education in France and England and participated in Patriarchal representation and delegations in Inter-Orthodox and Inter-Church Conferences. From 1987 to 19891990, he accompanied His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch [[Demitrius Demetrius I of Constantinople|Demetrius]] on his official visits to other Orthodox churches.