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[[Image:John Shahovskoy.jpg|100px|left]]His Eminence the Most Reverend '''[[John (Shahovskoy) of San Francisco|John (Shahovskoy), Archbishop of San Francisco]]''' was one of the many émigrés from the Russian civil war who entered a [[monastic]] life in the Orthodox Church and became a diocesan [[bishop]] in the United States. After first being [[consecration|consecrated]] Bishop of Brooklyn in the American [[OCA|Metropolia]], he was elected Bishop of San Francisco and Western America and [[Archbishop]] in 1961, a position he held until his retirement in 1973; he resumed active ministry again in 1975, and finally retired in 1979.
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[[Image:StJohntheMerciful.jpg|100px|left]]Our father among the saints '''''[[John the Merciful]]''''' was [[patriarch]] of Alexandria between 611 and 619. He gained his epithet from his unstinting generosity in distributing the vast wealth of the [[patriarchate]] of Alexandria to the poor and afflicted. The main source for his biography is a Life written by Leontius of Neapolis in Cyprus.  John was born in Amathus on Cyprus c. 550 to the patrician Epiphanius, a governor of the island. He married and had children, but was a widower when he was called to become patriarch of Alexandria in 611, becoming the fifth Chalcedonian bishop of Alexandria to bear that name.
  
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Abp John's work in the World Council of Churches in the Central Committee between 1954-66 developed contacts that would be instrumental in the re-establishment of canonical relations between the Metropolia and the [[Church of Russia]], ultimately resulting in the granting of [[autocephaly]] to the Metropolia as the [[Orthodox Church in America]].
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John's remarkable almsgiving or mercy (''eleemosyne'' in Greek) in distributing the vast wealth of the [[patriarchate]] of Alexandria to the poor and afflicted gave him his epithet of ''Merciful''.  His care was not limited to his own flock in Alexandria, but extended to the people of Palestine in their sufferings.
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He was forced to flee Alexandria by the Persian invasion of Egypt in 619. Returning to Cyprus, he died soon thereafter. A few years later much of John's work of reconciliation with the Non-Chalcedonians of Egypt was undone by the violent persecution instituted by Cyrus, who was both his successor as patriarch as well as prefect of Alexandria. John is commemorated in the Orthodox Church on [[November 12]].
  
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While in retirement he remained active in Russian literary and ecumenical circles. Archbishop John was the author of many books and articles. He often employed the pen name of ''Strannik'' in his writings. He died on [[May 30]], 1989, in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried at the Serbian Cemetery in San Francisco.
 
  
 
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Our father among the saints John the Merciful was patriarch of Alexandria between 611 and 619. He gained his epithet from his unstinting generosity in distributing the vast wealth of the patriarchate of Alexandria to the poor and afflicted. The main source for his biography is a Life written by Leontius of Neapolis in Cyprus. John was born in Amathus on Cyprus c. 550 to the patrician Epiphanius, a governor of the island. He married and had children, but was a widower when he was called to become patriarch of Alexandria in 611, becoming the fifth Chalcedonian bishop of Alexandria to bear that name.

John's remarkable almsgiving or mercy (eleemosyne in Greek) in distributing the vast wealth of the patriarchate of Alexandria to the poor and afflicted gave him his epithet of Merciful. His care was not limited to his own flock in Alexandria, but extended to the people of Palestine in their sufferings.

He was forced to flee Alexandria by the Persian invasion of Egypt in 619. Returning to Cyprus, he died soon thereafter. A few years later much of John's work of reconciliation with the Non-Chalcedonians of Egypt was undone by the violent persecution instituted by Cyrus, who was both his successor as patriarch as well as prefect of Alexandria. John is commemorated in the Orthodox Church on November 12.


Recently featured: Gabrielia (Papayannis), Fall of Constantinople, Seraphim of Sarov, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, John of Damascus, Lindisfarne, Edward the Martyr. Newly featured articles are presented every Saturday.

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