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Alexis Georgievich Toth (Алексий Георгиевич Товт or Alexis of Wilkes-Barre; March 18, 1853 – May 7, 1909) 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 ...
- Commemorated on May 7
May 18, 2016 · So successful was Toth in influencing Greek Catholic to become Orthodox that on May 24, 1994, he was canonized (glorified) a saint by the Orthodox Church in America. 22 Needless to say, Alexis ...
May 7, 2021 · Home / The Orthodox Faith / Lives of the Saints /. Repose of Saint Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America Commemorated on May 7. Troparion & Kontakion. Our holy Father Alexis, the defender of the Orthodox Faith and zealous worker in the Lord’s vineyard, was born in Austro-Hungary on March 18, 1854 into a poor Carpatho-Russian family.
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St. Alexis was born in a Carpatho-Rusyn family of priests, both his father and brother were priests and his uncle was a bishop. Like most Carpatho-Rusyns of the time, the Toths were Eastern Rite - Uniate Catholics. After completing his seminary education, he married Rosalie Mihalich, the daughter of a priest in 1878, was ordained to the ...
Apr 23, 2019 · St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre St. Alexis Toth, part of the wave of Eastern European immigrants to America in the late 1800s, arrived as an Eastern-rite priest and eventually led tens of thousands of his fellow Eastern-rite immigrants to the Orthodox Church, helping create a space for Eastern Christian practice in the American culture.
Alexis Toth was born into a poor Carpatho-Russian family on March 18, 1854, in Austro-Hungary. The Toth family was Eastern Rite Catholic in the Uniate Church. His father and brother were priests, and his uncle was the Bishop of Presov. Alexis received an excellent education and spoke several languages, including Russian, Greek, Latin, and ...
Alexis was a teacher and enlightener of the Orthodox faith in America. Under his leadership, Orthodoxy gained a firm foothold in America. His missionary work eventually brought 17 parishes to the Orthodox Faith with an estimated 29,000 people. When St. Patriarch Tikhon was recalled to Russia, he “entrusted his work to the hands of Father Toth ...
