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Thomas (Joseph) of Charleston and Oakland

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[[Image:Bishop THOMAS.jpg|thumb|right|Bp. Thomas of Charleston, Oakland and the Mid-Atlantic]]His Grace the Right Reverend Bishop '''Thomas (Joseph) of Charleston, Oakland and the Mid-Atlantic''' , Ed.D., (b. 1953) is a [[bishop]] of the [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America]]. (''Oakland'' refers to Oakland, Pennsylvania, a borough of Pittsburgh and the location of a cathedral for the diocese. The primary diocesan see is Charleston, West Virginia.)
==Life==
On [[February 15]], 2004, Fr. Thomas was elevated to the rank of [[archimandrite]] by Bp. Antoun, and on [[December 5]], 2004, he was consecrated to the [[bishop|episcopacy]] by [[Patriarch]] [[Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch]] in Damascus, Syria.
Bp. Thomas was enthroned as Bishop of Oakland and the East at St. George Cathedral in Pittsburgh (Borough of Oakland), Pennsylvania, on [[May 6]], 2005. In August of 2006, Bishop Thomas was awarded received a Doctorate in Education from California Coast University. His Grace also sits on the editorial board of ''Christian Bioethics''.
In 2006, the Church of St. George in Charleston, West Virginia, purchased a chancery for the diocese, and in October of that year was elevated to a cathedral, thus adding another see to the diocese and renaming it to the ''Diocese of Charleston, Oakland and the Mid-Atlantic''.
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