Aftimios Ofiesh
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Aftimios Ofiesh, born Abdullah Ofiesh, was an early 20th-century Eastern Orthodox bishop in the United States, serving as the immediate successor to St. Raphael of Brooklyn under the auspices of the R
Епископ Евфимий в 1922 году
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The American Orthodox Catholic Church, or The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America, and sometimes simply the American Orthodox Patriarchate, is an independent Eastern O
Aftimios Ofiesh
…Raphael of Brooklyn under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church. He held the title Bishop of Brooklyn from 1917 to April 1933, founded and led the American Orthodox Catholic Church for six years, and is, perhaps, best known as being the source of various lines of succession of episcopi vagantes. Born in 1880 as the son of an…
Bishop Aftimios Ofiesh (second right) with the 1921 pan-Orthodox gathering of bishops