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Bishop (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Index Bishop (Eastern Orthodox Church)

A Bishop in the Orthodox Christian Church is the highest spiritual office within the Universal Church. [1]

19 relations: Alexis Toth, Arseny of Winnipeg, Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles, Beheading of St John the Baptist, Church of St. George (Cairo), Clerical celibacy, Episcopal see, Innocent of Alaska, Josaphat Kuntsevych, Joseph (Balabanov), Oriental Orthodoxy, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Rethymno, Sava (Saračević), Sergei Hackel, Sister Pelagia, Tin Can Cathedral, Ukrainian Canadians, William C. Skurla.

Alexis Toth

Saint Alexis Toth (or Alexis of Wilkes-Barre; March 18, 1853 – May 7, 1909) was a Russian Orthodox church leader in the Midwestern United States who, having resigned his position as a Byzantine Catholic priest in the Ruthenian Catholic Church, became responsible for the conversions of approximately 20,000 Eastern Rite Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church, which contributed to the growth of Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States and the eventual establishment of the Orthodox Church in America.

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Arseny of Winnipeg

Arseny of Winnipeg, known to be the most reverend archbishop (secular name Andrew Lvovich Chagovstov, Андрей Львович Чаговцов; 10 March 1866 - 4 October 1945) was a bishop of Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America.

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Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles

For the Russian-American Metropolia (1924-1970), see Orthodox Church in America.

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Beheading of St John the Baptist

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, also known as the Decollation of Saint John the Baptist or the Beheading of the Forerunner, is a holy day observed by various Christian churches that follow liturgical traditions.

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Church of St. George (Cairo)

The Church of St.

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Clerical celibacy

Clerical celibacy is the requirement in certain religions that some or all members of the clergy be unmarried.

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Episcopal see

The seat or cathedra of the Bishop of Rome in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano An episcopal see is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

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Innocent of Alaska

Saint Innocent of Alaska (August 26, 1797 – March 31, 1879, O.S.), also known as Saint Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow (Russian Святитель Иннокентий Митрополит Московский) was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia.

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Josaphat Kuntsevych

Josaphat Kuntsevych, O.S.B.M., (– 12 November 1623) (Jozafat Kuncewicz, Juozapatas Kuncevičius, Йосафат Кунцевич, Josafat Kuntsevych) was a Polish-Lithuanian monk and archeparch (archbishop) of the Ruthenian Catholic Church, who on 12 November 1623 was killed by angry mob in Vitebsk, Vitebsk Voivodeship, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (now in Belarus).

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Joseph (Balabanov)

Archbishop Joseph (Иосиф, secular name Igor Anatolievich Balabanov, Игорь Анатольевич Балабанов; born January 31, 1954, Kashira) is a Russian Orthodox bishop, metropolitan bishop of Kurgan and Belozerskoye.

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Oriental Orthodoxy

Oriental Orthodoxy is the fourth largest communion of Christian churches, with about 76 million members worldwide.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

Kirill or Cyril (Кирилл, Ст҃ѣ́йшїй патрїа́рхъ кѷрі́ллъ, secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Владимир Михайлович Гундяев; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop.

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Rethymno

Rethymno (Ρέθυμνο,, also Rethimno, Rethymnon, Réthymnon, and Rhíthymnos) is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno regional unit on the island of Crete, a former Latin Catholic bishopric as Retimo(–Ario) and former Latin titular see.

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Sava (Saračević)

Bishop Sava of Edmonton (born Jovan Saračević, Јован Сарачевић, 22 Feb 1902 – 30 Jan 1973) was a Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

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Sergei Hackel

Archpriest Sergei Alekseyevich Hackel (alternate spelling Gakkel, Сергей Алексеевич Гаккель; 24 August 1931 – 9 February 2005) was a British Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, academic and broadcaster, who was the senior priest in Britain of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh.

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Sister Pelagia

Sister Pelagia is the heroine of a trilogy of mystery novels by Boris Akunin.

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Tin Can Cathedral

The Tin Can Cathedral (translit) was the first independent Ukrainian church in North America.

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Ukrainian Canadians

Ukrainian Canadians (translit) are Canadian citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukrainian-born people who immigrated to Canada.

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William C. Skurla

William Charles Skurla (born June 1, 1956 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States) is the Metropolitan Archeparch or Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh.

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Bishop (Eastern Orthodox Christianity), Bishop (Orthodox Church), Bishop (Russian Orthodox Church).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(Eastern_Orthodox_Church)

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