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The biography by Ofiesh's widow Mariam claims that Aftimios fully intended to function as a married bishop, having that intent even before he met Mariam.
[[Image:Aftimios Ofiesh grave.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The grave of Aftimios Ofiesh]]
Following his death in 1966 at age 85, Aftimios was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery across from St. Mary's Orthodox Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre. His widow Mariam subsequently wrote his biography, published in 1999. Another, shorter biography was published in the Word, a magazine of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese after Aftimios death.
==Continuing Legacy==
Whatever the case, relations between the small jurisdiction created by Aftimios and the mainstream Orthodox Church were not regularized following his marriage and ''de facto'' deposition from the episcopacy. Since that time, numerous and still multiplying lines of succession of ''[[episcopi vagantes]]'' continue to persist which all trace their roots to Aftimios (mainly through Ignatius Nichols), many of whom regard him as a [[saint]].[http://www.romanorthodox.com/sanctuary/staftimios.html][http://www.byzantinecatholicchurch.org/saintoftimios.html] Some of those bishops are married men, as well, which is a continual stumbling block to their unity with the mainstream Church, which has for centuries maintained a celibate episcopacy.
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*[http://theocacna.org/ofiesh.htm Archbishop Aftimios Ofiesh], from THEOCACNA (see below)
*[http://www.geocities.com/theocacnainc/abpofieshx.htm The Life of Archbishop Aftimios Ofiesh], from THEOCACNA
*[http://www.russianorthodox.org/history00.html History of the Russian Orthodox Church in America], from ROCIA
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