Seraphim (Storheim)

The monk Seraphim (Storheim), known prior to his October 2015 removal from holy orders as the retired Archbishop Seraphim of Ottawa, (born Kenneth William Storheim on 25 January 1946) is a former senior hierarch for the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). In 2014, a Canadian court convicted Storheim of child molestation. In 2015, he was deposed from the clergy by the Holy Synod of the OCA and returned to lay monk status.

Kenneth William Storheim was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada of Norwegian and Scottish ancestry, and was raised as a Lutheran. Receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta, Storheim also studied at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia and was ordained as an Anglican priest. He converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 1978, taking the name of Saint Seraphim of Sarov. He then attended St. Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, New York, where he was ordained in 1981.

Storheim lived at New Valamo Monastery in Finland and spent several years serving as an OCA parish priest throughout Canada and the United States. He was consecrated as auxiliary bishop of Edmonton in 1987, and became Bishop of the Diocese in 1990. He was elevated to the rank of archbishop at the 2007 meeting of the Holy Synod. As secretary of the Holy Synod of the OCA, Storheim served in a number of administrative capacities for the Holy Synod, and also traveled extensively in Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East, and Europe. On September 4, 2008, the Holy Synod of the OCA named Storheim the administrator of the Metropolitan's See (as Secretary to the Holy Synod) to assist Metropolitan bishop Dmitri who was appointed locum tenens.

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