Raphael of Brooklyn
Raphael of Brooklyn | |
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| Bishop, Archimandrite and Vicar of Brooklyn and all America | |
| Born | Raphael Hawaweeny November 20, 1860 Beirut, Ottoman Syria |
| Died | February 27, 1915 (aged 54) Brooklyn, New York City |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | March 2000 by Orthodox Church in America, October 2023 by Patriarchate of Antioch |
| Major shrine | Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral of Brooklyn, Little Syria, Manhattan |
| Feast | 27 February (OCA), First Saturday in November (Antiochian) |
| Patronage | America |
| Influences | Joseph of Damascus, Innocent of Alaska |
Tradition or genre | Orthodox Christian Mission |
Raphael of Brooklyn (Arabic: القديس رفائيل من بروكلين, lit. 'āl-Qidīs Rafāʾīl min Brūklīn', born Raphael Hawaweeny; Arabic: رفائيل الهواويني, romanized: Rafāʾīl Hawāwīnī; 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 Syrian Christian mission. He is best known for having been first Eastern Orthodox bishop of America, for his staunch critiques of ethnophyletism, exclusivism and Greek nepotism in the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as being precursor to the Arab Orthodox Movement and being among the first to integrate the Eastern Orthodox Church into multimedia with the first-ever published Eastern Orthodox magazine.