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His Eminence the Most Reverend '''Meliton (Karas), Metropolitan of Philadelphia''' (elected 1990), is an [[auxiliary bishop]] of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] and serves as the coordinator of the secretariats of of the patriarchate. He is also the godson of Ecumenical Patriarchate Patriarch [[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople|Bartholomew I]].
Metr. Meliton was born in Imvros (Gokceada), Turkey, on [[March 14]], 1951. He graduated 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 [[priest]] in 1990. 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 as the Coordinator of all the Secretariats of the Patriarchate. From 1987 to 1989, he accompanied Ecumenical Patriarch [[Demitrius I of Constantinople|Demetrius]] on his official visits to other Orthodox churches.
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