* in Nyack, New York (protestant family, baptized in a Presbyterian Church), grew up in Pleasantville, New York.
graduated from high school.
degree in missionary work from Protestant Nayak Missionary College.
received into the Orthodox Church in Innokentij Chapel in New York.
graduated from St. Vladimir Seminary New York.
went to Japan, became an English teacher at Skura-ga-Oka school in Toyohashi.
subdeacon.
diak.
mon (name Seraphim in honor of Seraphim of Sarov).
elected candidate for bishop at the Extraordinary Council of the Church of Japan (together with Vasily Nagashima, future Metr Theodosius); refused the election.
priest; ministry as second priest of the Church of Toyohashi, together with work as teacher at a local school.
archiman; sent to the church of the city of Sendai; also served in the church of the city of Nakanid.
reelected candidate for bishop and accepted.
ordained bishop (Metr Vladimir of Tokyo).
B of Sendai and East Japan.
moved back to the USA; served in various parishes in New York.
By the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the OCA adopted into the clergy as bishop at rest with the title "former Sendai".
travelled to Russia: contact with community "Hosanna" (followers of Fr. Alexander Men); teacher of religion at Drew University; conducts a "live journal" in the Internet.
