Ambrose Cantacuzène

Bishop Ambrose (French: Evêque Аmbroіse, secular name Pierre Cantacuzène[1] or Pyotr Petrovich Kantakuzen, Russian: Пётр Петрович Кантакузен; 16 September 1947 – 20 July 2009) was bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, bishop of Vevey Pierre Cantacuzène, was born on 3 September 1947, in Vevey, Switzerland to Prince Peter Georgievich Cantacuzène (1922-1975) and his wife, Princess Olga Alekseevna Orlova (1923-1984).

[2][3] He received his education in the classics and then graduated from the law school at Lausanne University.

[2][3] In 1972, in Vevey's Church of the Greatmartyr Barbara, during its patronal feast, he was tonsured a reader.

[2] He served in numerous parishes of the Western European Diocese: Brussels, Meudon, Lyon, Bari, Rome, and Montpellier.

[3] On 26 September 1993 he was consecrated bishop of Vevey, vicar for the Western-European diocese at the Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland.