Bishop Luke (

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Mark Murianka, ;

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, 1951) is an American church leader. He serves as

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of the

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, current

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of Holy Trinity Monastery, rector, associate professor of patrologyMeet Holy Trinity Seminary’s new rector, archimandrite Luke. A Biography of Archimandrite Luke, the 6th abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery /
Holy Trinity Seminary Newsletter Листок Свято-Троицкой Семинарии
No2 (24) 2008, page 2 of

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary () is an institution of higher learning under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) and located near Jordanville, New York. Associated with Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, ...

in Jordanville, New York, and

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Career

He was born on November 10, 1951, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Orthodox parents, Peter and Olga, who emigrated from Carpatho-Russian village in the early twentieth century. As he said: "All of my ancestors hail from the same region of Carpathian Russia. My paternal grandfather organized parishes under the Russian Church when he arrived in America. It was he who brought me into the altar for the first time to serve when I was four years old. On my mother’s side, there are many generations of priests and four bishops, one of whom was a confessor for Orthodoxy against the

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heresy. My parents guided with simple Christian wisdom, and my father piously and conscientiously worked out his salvation as a funeral director, by burying all of the Orthodox Christians in Philadelphia"Emma Cazabonn
Jordanville Seminary Rector consecrated as Bishop of Syracuse
// orthodoxie.com Since 1979, he has been teaching the New Testament, apologetics, and comparative theology at the Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville. He pronounced his monastic vows in 1980. Luke was ordained as a

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on July 12, 1981, by Bishop Laurus (Škurla) of Syracuse. He served in the Holy Trinity Monastery. Luke became the serving priest of the mission that is now Christ the Savior parish, located in

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. In 1982, hieromonk Luke became the dean of students of the Holy Trinity Seminary. On October 21, 1991, the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR decided to raise Luke to the rank of

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for his monastic obedience and for his hard work for Holy Trinity Seminary.Кузнецов В. А. Русское православное зарубежное монашество в XX веке: Биографический справочник. — Екатеринбург: Барракуда, 2014. — 442 с: ил. On December 17, 2003, the Synod appointed Luke to the newly-created Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, on talks with the corresponding Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate. The Synod included Luke in the official delegation to attend the ceremony of signing of the

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, held on April 18–20, 2007 in Moscow. Luke was elected abbot of the Holy Trinity Monastery on May 21, 2008. In September 2008, Synod appointed him as rector of

in Jordanville. On May 5, 2009, the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR (Council) decided to include Luke in the commission to study the relationship with the

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, whose task was to restore the Eucharistic communion with the Church. On December 6, 2018, the

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elected Luke as Bishop of Syracuse and Vicar of the Eastern American Diocese. Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York sent an appeal for the confirmation of this election to

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. The election was confirmed on December 28, 2018. On February 11, 2019, in Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, Metropolitan

Hilarion (Kapral) Metropolitan Hilarion (born Igor Alexeyevich Kapral, ; 6 January 1948 – 16 May 2022) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First-Hierarch of the ROCOR since 18 May ...

of Eastern America and New York, Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol, Archbishop

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of Montreal and Canada, and Bishop

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of Manhattan nominated Luke as Bishop and Vicar and consecrated Luke a bishop the next morning.

Writings

«Reflections on the 200th Anniversary of the French Revolution»
// Orthodox Life, 1989; pp. 21–30, pp. 21–33 * An Answer to the Orthodox Church in America’s Document 'Why Deepen the Schism?' // Orthodox Life, Vol. 40, № 6 (Nov-Dec 1990), pp. 10–26
Commentary on latest Recommendations of Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches
// Orthodox Life, vol. 42, no. 3 (May–June 1991), pp. 5–18.
«Concerning the Tradition of Long Hair and Beards»
// Orthodox Life, Vol. 45, No. 5 (Sept-Oct 1995), pp. 41–43
New Age Philosophy, Orthodox Thought, and Marriage
// Orthodox Life, No. 3, 1997
“A Patristic Reading of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary”
// Orthodox Life. 2001. pp. 38–49 ** «Мадам Бовари» Флобера и святоотеческое учение о грехе // Новый журнал. — Нью-Йорк, 2003. — Кн. 231. — С. 191—209. (Russian translation)
Aleksei Khomiakov : A Study of the Interplay of Piety and Theology
// A.S. Khomiakov : Poet, Philosopher, Theologian / edited by V. Tsurikov; Editorial Board H. Baran, R. Bird, P. Hunt, A. Klimoff, P. Valliere; Forew. by М. Раева; Afterword by R. Bird. — Jordanville, N.Y. : Holy Trinity Seminary, 2004. — 20-37. — (Readings in Russian Religious Culture; Vol.2)

// pravoslavie.ru, July 2/15, 2004 * ttp://www.pravoslavie.ru/jurnal/print515.htm Миссия Русской Православной Церкви Заграницей(доклад) // pravoslavie.ru, May 14, 2006
Archimandrite Flor (Vanko): December 9, 1926 — September 4, 2012
// Orthodox Life, No. 6 2012
«Архимандрит Флор (Ванько) (+04.09.2012)»
// «Церковный вестник», 20 ноября 2012

// pravoslavie.ru, October 16, 2015
“I Was Born This Way” is Not the Utterance of a Christian
// orthodoxlife.org, February 22, 2018

References

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