St. Raphael of Brooklyn Orthodox Christian Print

St. Raphael of Brooklyn was a late 19th century / early 20th century 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 the first Eastern Orthodox bishop of America and for his staunch critiques of ethnophyletism and exclusivism. He was also known 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. St. Raphael also went out on ambitious missionary journeys in America and even went to Cuba. Please note: if the image is increased more than we have it, the image might get distorted.