His Grace Bishop Silouan of Sinope

His Grace Bishop Silouan of Sinope was born in 1978 in Brisbane, Australia.

He holds a degree in Theology from the St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College in Sydney and a degree in Social Work from the University of Queensland. He holds a postgraduate diploma in languages from the Flinders University and an Honours degree in Theology from the same University. He was awarded a PhD from the Australian Catholic University with the thesis: "The Letters of Bishop Basil of Caesarea: Instruments of Communion.”

On 23 November 2002 he was tonsured as a monk from his Spiritual Father since his student years, Elder Stephanos, who was the then Abbott of the Holy Monastery of Pantanassa. He was ordained deacon on 1 December of the same year and was ordained presbyter 25 October 2003, by Archbishop Stylianos of Australia. On 4 June 2006 he was elevated to Archimandrite by Archbishop Stylianos, and on the 22 February 2012, he was consecrated as a Confessor by Bishop Nikandros of Dorylaeon, now Metropolitan of Irinoupolis.

From 2002 to 2006 he served in the Holy Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Brisbane, Queensland, and since then, and up until 2019 served in the Holy Monastery of Saint Nectarios in Croydon Park, South Australia.
Since 2006 he represented the Archdiocese in the ‘Leaders of Christian Churches’ and in the ‘South Australian Council of Churches’ in Adelaide, as well as serving as a Board Member of the Greek Welfare Centre “Saint Philothei” in Adelaide. Since 2019 he became the director of the Greek Welfare Centre on behalf of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, as well as the representative of His Eminence to St. Basil’s Homes S.A. Since 2017 he is a Lecturer of Patristics Theology at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College in Sydney.

In 2019 he was appointed Archiepiscopal Vicar of Adelaide by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia and on November 28 of the same year, following the proposal by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, was elected unanimously by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate as Bishop of Sinope. On January 19, 2020, he was ordained to the Episcopacy by the hands of Archbishop Makarios of Australia at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Sydney.