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The Patriarchal Monastery of Saint Elias – Shwayya (or Deir Mar Elias Shwayya; [1] Arabic: دير مار إلياس شويّا البطريركيّ) [2] is a stauropegic monastery of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, [3] perched atop a sandstone cliff in the Matn District, thirty-one kilometers from Beirut.
St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church is a church of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It is part of the Diocese of Toledo and the Midwest. The church was founded by Syrian and Lebanese immigrants [1] [2] [3] and named in honor of the Hebrew Prophet Elijah. St.
The congregation was founded in 1929 by immigrants from Kfar Mechki, Lebanon.They originally worshiped in a church downtown, that is today St. Elijah's Housing.In part due to the Lebanese Civil War the Antiochian Eastern-Orthodox population of Ottawa increased dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s and the congregation began to look for a larger home.
The "Macedonian Home" in 1939, converted to St. Elia Macedono-Bulgarian Orthodox Church in 1946. The present church structure that is home to St. Elia today was built in 1939 by Akron's Macedonian-Bulgarian community, most of whom had emigrated in the early 20th century from the cities of Bitola, Florina, and Sorovich in southwestern Macedonia.
Profitis Ilias Greek Orthodox Church, in Endeavour, Saskatchewan St. Ilija Macedonian Orthodox Church, Mississauga St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral , in Ottawa
Saint Elias of Enna, born John Rachites (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης Ῥαχίτης; 822/823 in Enna – August 17, 903 in Thessalonica), is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Elias is also known as Saint Elias the Younger, or Junior, to distinguish him from the biblical prophet Elijah. He lived a very ...
It is also said to be the burial place of the Greek Bishop Elias of Bethlehem who died in 1345, and St. Elias, an Egyptian monk who became Patriarch of Jerusalem in 494. [ 3 ] Another Christian tradition is that Mary rested under the large hackberry tree growing north of the monastery when she was fleeing Herod, who had ordered the execution of ...
Saint Dionysius, founder of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity (nowadays known as Monastery Agios Dionysios), also founded the chapel of the Prophet Elias in the 16th century. It was built on the ruins of an ancient structure. Dionysus, who practised an ascetic life, is said to have lived in the church at times. [4]