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Sergius of Evkarpia (born Serge Konovalov July 8 1941 Leuven Belgium – January 22 2003 Paris France) was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who led the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe from 1993 to 2003. Educated at the University of Louvain he was ordained as a married deacon in 1968 and became a priest in 1980. Following the death of his wife by whom he had three children he became a monk in 1990.