Career
During this time he was diocesan secretary from 1968 to 1977. He served as an assistant priest in Blackheath, London, from 1972 to 1977. He was consecrated as coadjutor bishop to the Metropolitan of Glastonbury in 1977 and succeeded him as Metropolitan of Glastonbury in 1979.
In 1994 he became a monk of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary (El-Surian), Wadi El Natrun, Egypt, hence the name Abba Seraphim El-Suriani.
Vice-President of the Council of Oriental Orthodox Churches in the United Kingdom
Council of Society of Saint John Chrysostom.