Alexis Toth
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 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.
Saint Alexis of Wilkes-Barre | |
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| Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy | |
| Born | Alexis Georgievich Toth March 14, 1853, Kobylnice, Austrian Empire (modern Slovakia) |
| Died | May 7, 1909 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Major shrine | Saint Tikhon's Monastery, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, |
| Feast | Commemorated on May 7 |
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