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Soter Stephen Ortynsky de Labetz was born in Ortynychi , Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, on January 29, 1866, then part of Galicia. January 1, 1889, he made his vows with the Basilian Order. July 18, 1891, he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan of Lviv Sylvester Sembratovych and celebrated his first Liturgy at the Monastery Church in Dobromyl.
Stephen Ortinsky sent to the US by Rome to stem the tide of Uniate returns to Orthodoxy; Papal decree Ea Semper issued, mandating all Uniate priests in American be celibate; first Sunday of Orthodoxy service in New York; first Bulgarian parish in Madison, Illinois; ordination in Constantinople of first African-American Orthodox priest, the Very ...
Michael Kuchmiak, C.Ss.R. (1988–1989), appointed Eparch of Holy Family of London; Wolodymyr Paska (1992–2000) John Bura (2006–2019) Andriy Rabiy (2017–2022), appointed auxiliary eparch of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg
Ea Semper was an apostolic letter written by Pope Pius X in September 1907 that dealt with the governance of the Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholics in the United States. [1] It dealt with the appointment of Soter Ortynski as the first bishop of the Ruthenian Catholics in the United States, together with papal instructions concerning his powers and duties.
Emir Kusturica – Serbian Orthodox. Raised in a Bosnian Muslim Family. His conversion gained some media attention. [9] Ana Layevska – Ukrainian-born Mexican actress and violinist (of Russian origin) Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovich) – said to have been Serbian Orthodox. Constantine Maroulis – Greek Orthodox, brother of Athan Maroulis [10]
The Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the United States and Canada, who had come chiefly from the vilayets of Adana ...
In 1970, the Russian Metropolia (also known as the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in North America) was granted autocephaly, and was renamed as the Orthodox Church in America. Sylvester (Haruns) Daugavpils, Latvia: Ivan Antonovich Haruns Archbishop of Montreal and Canada, Temporary Administrator of the Orthodox Church in America 1974–1977
Last heir of the last imperial family of Russia; passion bearer [72] Alexis of Wilkes-Barre: 1909: 7 May: Hieroconfessor, Defender of Orthodoxy, who converted 20,000 Ruthenian Catholics to Orthodoxy, also known as Alexis Toth [73] [74] Alexis of Rome: 401–450 [23] 17 March Man of God, Venerable, also known as Alexius [23] [75] Alypius of the ...