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==Life==
Born Rizkallah Abouhatab, Emmanuel (Abo-Hatab ) served as archdeacon to St. [[Raphael of Brooklyn]] during the first decades of the twentieth century and was subsequently [[ordination|ordained]] a [[priest]]. On [[September 11]], 1927, Fr. Emmanuel was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] Bishop of Montreal by [[Archbishop]] [[Aftimios Ofiesh|Aftimios (Ofiesh)]] and Bishops [[Theophilus (Pashkovsky) of San Francisco|Theophilus (Pashkovsky)]] and [[Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg|Arseny (Chagovtsov)]] as [[vicar]] to Abp. Aftimios to administer the Syrian parishes in Canada under the [[American Orthodox Catholic Church]].
In 1931, Emmanuel broke with Aftimios and rejoined the Russian Metropolia, taking Aftimios's previous episcopal see of Brooklyn at the appointment of [[Metropolitan]] [[Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of New York]].
