Our Bishop

H.E. Basilio, (Salvador Gandulfo), born in Santiago de Chile on December 27, 1953, in a papist family, was baptized and educated in the faith by his grandparents, since his parents annulled his marriage before his birth.

His primary education was in American schools in Santiago, where he learned English, his secondary education was in a high school where he graduated and then entered the university to study Law and at the same time he studied Computer Science. Upon graduating, he works as a lawyer's assistant for a while and he realizes that this is not what God wants for him, so he starts working in IT, managing to climb positions and become a Technology Manager at Marriott Chile. At the age of 29 he decides to seek the path of God and enters monastic life at the Benedictine Monastery of Lliu-Lliu, after studying theology, he becomes disillusioned with the church so he has to live and see, he returns to work in Technology once again, obtaining management positions and marrying, 4 children born of this marriage and after 13 years they divorce and the marriage is annulled in the papist church, three of their children live with him, two men and one of the women, being older, he decides to return to the path of faith and seeks to be accepted into the Holy Orthodox Church, receiving Holy Baptism under the name of Basil, studying Orthodox theology and is ordained as a deacon and later receives monastic tonsure and priestly ordination, after several years he receives the Grand Scheme and is made an Archimandrite.

On January 13, 2020, according to the old calendar, he was ordained Bishop of Santiago at the Holy Synod Greek Orthodox Missionary Archdiocese of America.

He currently lives in the San Basilio Monastery of which he is Abbot in Curacavi, Metropolitan Region, Chile.