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[[Image:KovaleskyKovalevsky-Maximovitch.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Consecration of Bishop Jean-Nectaire (l) by St. [[John Maximovitch]] (r)]]His Grace, the Right Reverend [[Bishop]] '''Jean-Nectaire (Kovalesky) of Saint-Denis''' was the first [[hierarch]] of the [[Orthodox Church of France]] (1966-1970).

Bp. Jean-Nectaire was born Evgraph Kovalevsky in St. Petersburg, Russia, on [[April 8]], 1905. He was the brother of the [[deacon]] and musicologist Maxime Kovalevsky (1903-1988) and the historian Pierre Kovalevsky (1901-1979). He was co-founder with [[Vladimir Lossky]] of the [[Brotherhood of St. Photius ]] (1925) and the French Orthodox [[St. Denys Theological Institute(Paris, Saint-France)|St Denys Institute]] (1944). He was ordained a [[priest]] of the [[Moscow Patriarchate]] by [[Metropolitan]] Eleutherius (Bogoyavlenky) in 1937. Upon the death of [[Archimandrite]] Irénée (Louis-Charles) Winnaert, he was placed in charge of the newly formed Western Orthodox Church established by Metropolitan [[Sergius I (Stragorodsky) of Moscow|Sergius]], the Patriarchal ''[[locum tenens]]'' of Moscow. The [[Holy Synod]] of the Church of Russia conferred upon him the title Doctor of Divinity in 1952. In 1966, he was tonsured by [[Archbishop]] [[John Maximovitch]], given the [[monastic]] name of Jean-Nectaire, consecrated bishop (with the assistance [[Theophilus (Ionescu) of Sèvres]]), and installed as the first Bishop of Saint-Denis in the modern era, making him the hierarch of the [[Western Rite]] diocese now known as the [[Orthodox Church of France]]. He reposed on [[January 30]], 1970. 

His major published works are:1. # ''La Sainte Messe selon l'ancien rite des Gaules ou Liturgie selon S. Germain de Paris.Le canon eucharistique de l'ancien rite des Gaules''. 2. # ''Homélies. Quelques enseignements spirituels donnés en l'Eglise Saint Irénée''. 3. # ''Message de Noël''.4. # ''Pierre et Paul. Leur signification. Leur place dans la tradition chrétienne catholique orthodox''. 5. # ''Quarante Degrés ou quarante Immolation de Carême''.6. # ''La Sainte Messe selon St Germain de Paris et le chant des fideèles''.7. # ''Initiation à la Genèse''.8. # ''Technique de la prière''. (Published in English as ''A Method of Prayer for Modern Times,'' Praxis, 1993, ISBN 978-1872292182).9. # ''Le chemin de la vie et la destinée de l'âme après la mort''. 10. # ''Ezéchiel''. 11. # ''Le mystère des origines''. 12. # ''Initiation trinitaire''.13. # ''La liturgie céleste''.14. # ''Marie, Vierge et Mère''.15. # ''Les chemins de l'homme''.16. # ''Le Verbe incarné''.17. # ''La quête de l’Esprit''. 18. # ''Le sens de l'exode''. 19. # ''Le carême''.