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Raphael of Brooklyn ( ar, قديس رافائيل من بروكلين), born Rufāʾīl Hawāwīnī (Raphael Hawaweeny; ar, رفائيل هواويني; November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915), was bishop of the
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, auxiliary bishop of
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, vicar of the Northern-American diocese, and head of the Antiochian Levantine Christian mission. He was the first Orthodox Christian bishop consecrated on American soil.


Life

He was born in modern-day Lebanon to Damascene
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( Antiochian Greek Christian) parents of the Antiochian Orthodox faith who had come to Beirut fleeing the 1860 Syrian Civil War in
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. He was first educated at the Damascus
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School that had become the leading
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institution of higher learning in the Levant under the leadership of Joseph of Damascus. He furthered his study of Christian theology at the
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Halki seminary The Halki seminary, formally the Theological School of Halki ( el, Θεολογική Σχολή Χάλκης and tr, Ortodoks Ruhban Okulu), was founded on 1 October 1844 on the island of Halki ( Turkish: Heybeliada), the second-largest of the ...
in
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, and at the Theological Academy in
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,
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(now
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,
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). Father Raphael was sent to
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in 1895 by Tsar
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to administer the local Orthodox Christian community which then included mainly
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, Greek, and Levantine immigrants. In 1904, he became the first Orthodox
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to be consecrated in
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; the consecration was performed in
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by Archbishop Tikhon (Bellavin) and Bishop Innocent (Pustynsky). He served as Bishop of
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until his death. During the course of his ministry as an auxiliary bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in America, Raphael founded the present-day cathedral of the
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, established thirty parishes and assisted in the founding of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery. Bishop Raphael founded the official magazine of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese, ''The Word'', in 1905 in Arabic (الكلمة).


Glorification and honors

Bishop Raphael was originally buried in
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until August 1988, when his relics were translated to the Antiochian Village Camp in
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, on property of the Antiochian Archdiocese, along with several other bishops and clergy. Raphael was glorified by the Holy Synod of the
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(OCA) in its March 2000 session. He is commemorated by the OCA on February 27, the anniversary of his death and by the
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on the first Saturday of November near the Synaxis of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and all the bodiless powers of heaven. In 2015, the Antiochian Archdiocese, OCA and
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celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the dormition of St. Raphael. He is commemorated on 14 February and on 27 October - Synaxis of All Saints of Kiev Theological Academy and Kiev Theological Seminary in
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.


See also

* Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, New York


References


“Christian Church to be Filled by a Damascus Preacher”
(''The New York Times'', Sept 15, 1895)


External links


Raphael of Brooklyn
from OrthodoxWiki
Bishop Raphael’s New Attitude (1912)
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