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During his clerical ministry, he served as
General Supervisor and Professor of Religious Education at the Al-Assiyeh Orthodox College and supervised the Patriarchal headquarters in Damascus. Besides being the Patriarchal Assistant during the past several years, Bishop Joseph served as the secretary
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Damascus in December, 1980. As a deacon, he served parishes in Thessaloniki. As a priest, he was dean of St. Mary Cathedral of Damascus, and overseer of the Holy Cross Church and other parishes in the suburbs of Damascus. In 1983, he pastored the Antiochian Orthodox followers living in London,
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In 2022, details began to emerge alleging Al-Zehlaoui of engaging in a long term affair with a married woman, with documents leaked on controversial
Orthodox blog Orthodoxy in Dialogue. Following the publication of these allegations, Al-Zehlaoui resigned from the episcopacy on September 7, 2022.
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October 2023, Al-Zehlaoui sued the archdiocese for millions of dollars. On March 14, 2024, in response to the lawsuit and for refusal to vacate the Los Angeles chancery belonging to the archdiocese, he was defrocked by the Holy Synod of Antioch.
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of New York, Al-Zehlaoui was selected by the Holy Synod of
Antioch on January 24, 1995, to be an auxiliary bishop for the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
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He was elected to the episcopate on May 5, 1991, and consecrated on June 30, 1991, in the Holy
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Salonica, in December 1976. Subsequently, he was ordained to the priesthood by Patriarch
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Antioch, Editor-in-Chief of the Patriarchal Bulletin and participated in several theological conferences in Greece,
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in Northern Lebanon and elected Al-Zehlaoui at its meeting as metropolitan of North America.
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