Originally Posted by Philippe Gebara
And who is the melkite bishop from St. Basil Seminary? Moutran Samra?

Philippe,

Thank you for the information about those monasteries, I wasn't aware of them.

The 3 bishops who were educated at St Basil's were, indeed, Sayedna Nicholas (Samra), as well as Sayedna Robert (Shaheen) - Eparch of Our Lady of Lebanon in Los Angeles of the Maronites, and Vladyka John Michael (Botean) - Eparch of St George's in Canton of the Romanians.

Many years,

Neil

"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."