Raphael of Brooklyn
| Saint Raphael of Brooklyn | |
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| Bishop of Brooklyn | |
| Born |
November 20, 1860 Beirut, Ottoman Syria |
| Died |
February 27, 1915 (aged 54) Brooklyn, New York City |
| Canonized | March 2000 by Orthodox Church in America |
| Feast | February 27 |
Saint Raphael of Brooklyn Arabic: قديس رافائيل من بروكلين (born Raphael Hawaweeny Arabic: رفائيل هواويني; November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915) was bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, vicar of the Northern-American diocese, and head of the Antiochian Levantine Christian Greek Orthodox mission. He was the first Orthodox Christian bishop consecrated on American soil.
He was born in Beirut, modern-day Lebanon, to Damascene Syrian parents of the Greek Orthodox faith who had come to Beirut fleeing a massacre of Christians in Damascus. He was first educated at the Damascus Patriarchal School that had become the leading Greek Orthodox institution of higher learning in the Levant under the leadership of Saint Joseph of Damascus. He furthered his study of Christian theology at the Patriarchical Halki seminary in Constantinople, and at the Theological Academy in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine).
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