Are there recent Eastern saints?

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Orthodox (which have problems) or Catholic East?

I love St. Charbel, personally. Very inspiring! 🙂
 
Beattified:
Blessed Theodore Romzha, of the Ukraine, Martyr and Ruthenian Bishop.
2 other Ukrainian Bishop-martyrs whose names I can’t recall.

Not yet beattified, but it’s coming:
Father Ragheed and his subdeacons, Martyrs.
Bishop Rahho, and his aides, Martyrs.
 
Aramis said:
Beattified:
Blessed Theodore Romzha, of the Ukraine, Martyr and Ruthenian Bishop.
2 other Ukrainian Bishop-martyrs whose names I can’t recall.
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Aramis,

I believe the two others that you refer to are Bishop +Paul Gojdich and Bishop +Basil Hopko.
 
I totally forgot about this thread! I ended up finding the picture. It has a pencil written description on the back:

Albanian Bishop
Oxford Street
April 1929
F4 5/25th

I have no clue who this bishop is or what his name is. The picture shows the bishop being escorted out of a car by three individuals in suits and longcoats. It looks like this may be Oxford Street in Philadelphia, near where my great granduncle used to live.

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
 
Has anyone heard of an American Saint, a martyr, called “St. Peter the Aleut”?

Dare I ask if anyone knows who killed him and why? (Consider it to be a rhetorical question - do not answer it in this forum, please)
 
Yes, I’ve heard of St. Peter the Aleut.

He’s commemorated on June 19 and also on 24 September (Martyrs of Alaska).
 
JohnVIII said:
Has anyone heard of an American Saint, a martyr, called “St. Peter the Aleut”?

Dare I ask if anyone knows who killed him and why? (Consider it to be a rhetorical question - do not answer it in this forum, please)
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Martyred for Orthodoxy by Spanish Catholics in northern California; was part of the Russian trade fort personnel.

Oft considered apocryphal, especially since Orthodoxy didn’t penetrate the Aleut deeply; they went to war with the Russians since they didn’t want to even trade with them!

That a few Aleut converted is fact; that Alyaskan/Alaskan aboriginals joined russian trade staff is documented (weakly, tho’, and not specifically for the forts in N. Cali). It’s therefore plausible, but unlikely.

Peter supposedly was a minor cleric, trained by St. Herman.

The odds are that he wasn’t Aleut, but either Aleutiq, Athabasqan, Tlingtit, Tsimshian, or Haida.

Given that some references are to St. Peter the Eskimo, that tends to indicate Aleutiq, which is a different social/ethnic group (and even phenotype), which did have decent rates of adoption of Russian Orthodoxy.
 
Hi, i’m JMartyr. I can’t remember the name of a saint venerated in the East. He was an apologist for Orthodoxy.

I’d appreciate some help on this, please.

Thanks.đź‘Ť
 
Alexius said:
I totally forgot about this thread! I ended up finding the picture. It has a pencil written description on the back:

Albanian Bishop
Oxford Street
April 1929
F4 5/25th

I have no clue who this bishop is or what his name is. The picture shows the bishop being escorted out of a car by three individuals in suits and longcoats. It looks like this may be Oxford Street in Philadelphia, near where my great granduncle used to live.

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
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Do you think you could scan it or take a photo of it?
 
Irish_Melkite said:
The cause of Father Walter, of blessed memory, is still in the earliest of stages.

Many years,

Neil
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Great reads-The way of the Pilgram and He leadeth Me—The Ladder Prayer-Prayer of the Heart- try the Geek for Mercy and see what you get…
 
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Alexius said:
I totally forgot about this thread! I ended up finding the picture. It has a pencil written description on the back:

Albanian Bishop
Oxford Street
April 1929
F4 5/25th

I have no clue who this bishop is or what his name is. The picture shows the bishop being escorted out of a car by three individuals in suits and longcoats. It looks like this may be Oxford Street in Philadelphia, near where my great granduncle used to live.

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
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Neil, aka “The Irish Melkite” sent me the following which I pass along here:
Re: that photo being talked about on CAF. You might want to pass on the info that Ss Peter and Paul Albanian Orthodox Church was located at Hancock & Oxford Sts in Philly from 1919 until the late '70s or early '80s, when it relocated to the northeast section of the city.
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It’s almost a certainty that any Albanian bishop pictured would be Metropolitan Theophan (Fan) Noli, of blessed memory, who had consecrated the church in 1919 when he was an archimandrite. However, it calls the dating of the photo into question, as Fan Noli was in exile in Europe in 1929, after the collapse of the Albanian government, which he had headed, and the expiration of his US visa. He did not return to the US until somewhere between 1932 and 1934. But, there was no other Albanian hierarch resident in the US in 1929 and the likelihood that one visited from Albania is slim to none, as the Church there was in significant disarray at that point in its history.
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Many years,
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Neil
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Hope this helps.
 
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