Raphael of Brooklyn
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Raphael of Brooklyn, 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 kn
Undated photograph of Raphael
Arab Orthodox Movement
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The Arab Orthodox Movement is a political and social movement aiming for the Arabisation of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Antiochian Orthodox Church, which has jurisdiction over
Raphael of Brooklyn
…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. He was born…
View of the Holy Sepulchre, East Jerusalem, where the patriarchate's headquarters are located
The appointment of Meletius II as patriarch of Antioch in 1899 was considered a successful Arabization that inspired the movement among laity of the Jerusalem Patriarchate
Sixth meeting of the Palestine Arab Congress passed a resolution supporting the Arab Orthodox Movement and recognized it in broader nationalist terms, Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine, 16 June 1923
British troops talk to Orthodox Greek priests outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 11 August 1942.