Raphael of Brooklyn

Saint

Raphael of Brooklyn
Bishop, Archimandrite and Vicar of Brooklyn and all America
BornRaphael Hawaweeny
(1860-11-20)November 20, 1860
Beirut, Ottoman Syria
Died February 27, 1915(1915-02-27) (aged 54)
Brooklyn, New York City
Venerated inEastern Orthodox Church
CanonizedMarch 2000 by Orthodox Church in America,[1] October 2023 by Patriarchate of Antioch[2]
Major shrineAntiochian Orthodox Cathedral of Brooklyn, Little Syria, Manhattan
Feast27 February (OCA), First Saturday in November (Antiochian)
PatronageAmerica
InfluencesJoseph 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;[3] 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[4] 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,[5] as well as being precursor to the Arab Orthodox Movement[6] and being among the first to integrate the Eastern Orthodox Church into multimedia with the first-ever published Eastern Orthodox magazine.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Thousands Attend Glorification of Saint Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn, at Saint Tikhon's Monastery". Orthodox Church in America. June 19, 2000. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  2. ^ "Antiochian Church Canonizes Two Saints, Adds St. Raphael and All Saints of Antioch to Calendar". OrthoChristian. October 20, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  3. ^ Boullata, Issa J. (1995). The first one hundred years. Antakya Press. p. 85. ISBN 9780962419027.
  4. ^ Report, Morning Call | Staff (March 11, 2006). "Raphael of Brooklyn". The Morning Call. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  5. ^ Hawaweeny, Raphael. "Historical glance at the brotherhood of the church of the holy sepulchre" (PDF).
  6. ^ Hawaweeny, Raphael. "Historical glance at the brotherhood of the church of the holy sepulchre" (PDF).
  7. ^ "St. Raphael of Brooklyn + First Saturday in November - Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese". Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  8. ^ Shepherd of America: St. Raphael of Brooklyn, November 3, 2023, retrieved November 7, 2023