Fr. Seraphim Majmudar

 

Fr. Seraphim was born in 1971 in Houston Texas, with the given name Nitant Tex Majmudar. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Concord, California where he grew up and where he received his early elementary and high school education.

 

 Fr. Seraphim graduated from Ignacio Valley High School in 1989 and attended Pepperdine University. He later transferred to the University of California Santa Barbara and graduated with a BA in Religious Studies in 1993. He later returned to University of California Santa Barbara graduating with a Master’s in Education/California Teaching Credential in 1995.

 

 In 1995, after receiving his M. Ed., he was hired to be a full time 3^rd grade teacher at SS Peter and Paul Academy. For the next 10 years he taught many subjects and grade levels depending on the needs of the school; he also taught Algebra and SAT preparation for the Santa Cruz City School District. In 1997 he met Sophie, whom he married that year and they have two children, Brigid and John Basil.

 

 Fr. Seraphim was introduced to the Orthodox Church while a student in Santa Barbara and was baptized on Holy Saturday in 1993.

 

 In 2000 Fr. Seraphim traveled to Jerusalem and was ordained a deacon on September 29, 2000 and a priest on September 30, 2000. He returned to the United States to serve the parishes under the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. In 2005 he received a full scholarship to St. Tikhon’s Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, where he and his family lived until 2008.

 

 Fr. Seraphim has requested to be incardinated into the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and received into the Metropolis of San Francisco under the omophorion of His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos which was completed this year.