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Confessor · 20th century
Saint Alexis Toth Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America
Also known as Alexis of Wilkes-Barre · Alexis Toth
A Carpatho-Russian priest in North America who, meeting hostility as an Eastern-rite Catholic, returned with many of his people to the Orthodox Church, becoming the great gatherer of Slavic immigrants into Orthodoxy in America; he reposed in 1909.
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Notes
Region of origin (Carpatho-Rus'/Slovakia) has no controlled term; left blank. Modern North American saint.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints