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[[Image:Amvrossy merezhkoArchbishop.jpg|left|thumb|px175| Archbishop Amvrossy (Merejko) of Pittsburgh]]
==Life==
Adrian Merejko (Адриан Мережко) was born on [[August 25]], 1889 near Kiev and grew up near the [[Monastery of the Kiev Caves|Kiev Pechersk Caves Lavra]]. He worked as a secretary in the Ekaterinoslav provincial administration after his graduation from secondary school and before emigrating to the United States of America in 1923.
After Archbishop [[Vitaly (Maximenko) of Jersey City|Vitaly (Maximenko)]] arrived in the United States in the 1930s, Abp. Vitaly met Adrian and became Adrian's mentor in his education in Orthodox theology. Adrian, in the meantime, had been [[tonsure]]d a [[monk]] with the name Amvrossy. In 1938, Abp. Vitaly [[ordination|ordained]] Amvrossy a [[deacon]] after which he served at the Cathedral of the Ascension in the Bronx, New York under Abp. Vitaly. Later in 1938, Dn. Amvrossy was ordained a [[priest]] by [[Metropolitan]] [[Theophilus (Pashkovsky) of San Francisco|Theophilus]] of the Russian Metropolia.
years=1967-1974|
after=Theodosius (Lazor)}}
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