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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Saints Cyril and Methodius, Herman of Alaska, Raphael Morgan, Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Saint Nino, Tikhon of Moscow, Innocent of Alaska, Victor Pokrovsky, Nicholas of Japan, Anthony of Sourozh, Andronic Nikolsky, Jonah of Manchuria, Stephen of Perm, Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev, Patriarch Hermogenes, Benjamin, Chinese Martyrs, Macarius II, Nicetas of Remesiana, Pyotr Kafarov, Anatoly Tikhai, Nikita Bichurin, Kuksha of the Kiev Caves, Yakov Tikhai, Jonah Lwanga, Mikhail Alexeyevich Miropiev, List of Eastern Orthodox missionaries, List of Russian Orthodox missionaries. Excerpt: Very Rev. Raphael Morgan (born Robert Josias Morgan, 186x/187x - 19xx) was a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, designated as "Priest-Apostolic" (Greek: ) to America and the West Indies, later the founder and superior of the Order of the Cross of Golgotha, and thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America. He spoke broken Greek, and therefore served mostly in English. Having recently been discovered, his life has garnered great interest, but much of his life still remains shrouded in mystery. Fr. Raphael is said to have resided all over the world, including: "in Palestine, Syria, Joppa, Greece, Cyprus, Mytilene, Chios, Sicily, Crete, Egypt, Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Austria, Germany, England, France, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Bermuda, and the United States." Robert Josias Morgan was born in Chapelton, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica either in the late 1860s or early 1870s to Robert Josias and Mary Ann (nee Johnson) Morgan. He was born six months after his father's death, and named in his honour. Robert was raised in the Anglican tradition and received elementary schooling locally. In his teenage years he travelled to Colon, Panama, then to British Honduras, back to Jamaica, and then...
