Alexis Toth
Deceased Person
1853 – 1909
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Who was Alexis Toth?
Saint Alexis Toth was a Russian Orthodox church leader in the Midwestern United States who, having resigned his position as a Byzantine Catholic priest in the Ruthenian Catholic Church, became responsible for the conversions of approximately 20,000 Eastern Rite Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church, which contributed to the growth of Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States and the eventual establishment of the Orthodox Church in America. He was canonized by the Orthodox Church in 1994.
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- Born
- Mar 18, 1853
Kobylnice - Also known as
- Товт, Алексей Георгиевич
- Ethnicity
- Rusyn American
- Lived in
- Wilkes-Barre
- Died
- May 7, 1909
Wilkes-Barre
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on July 23, 2013
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