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WITH LOVE FROM EBAUMS WITH LOVE FROM EBAUMS WITH LOVE FROM EBAUMS WITH LOVE FROM EBAUMS WITH LOVE FROM EBAUMS WITH LOVE FROM EBAUMS{{cleanup}}Metropolitan '''Antonio (de Rosso)''' was the head of the former [[Old Calendarist]] [[Chiesa Ortodossa in Italia]] ("Orthodox Church in Italy") and the [[Metropolitan]] of [[Ravenna (Italy)|Ravenna]] and Italy. ==Life==Metr. Antonio was born on [[February 8]], 1941 in Farra di Soligo (near Treviso, Veneto). In 1968 he was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[priest]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. In 1986, after his conversion to [[Orthodox Church|Orthodoxy]] he was named [[bishop]] of Aprilia and Latium under the [[jurisdiction]] of Metr. [[Cyprian of Fili|Cyprian]] of Oropos and Fili, a leader of the [[Greek Old Calendarists]] movement. It was from Metr. Cyprian that Metr. Antonio derived his [[apostolic succession]]. In 1991, he founded the Orthodox Church in Italy. In 1993, Metr. Antonio joined the [[Bulgarian Orthodox Church]] and, in 1995, was enthroned bishop of Ravenna and Italy. After 1997 the [[Chiesa Ortodossa in Italia]] remained linked with [[Patriarch]] Pimen's [[Bulgarian Alternative Synod]] and under whom Bp. Antonio became Metropolitan of Ravenna and Italy. In the same year Metr. Antonio became a full member of Pimen's [[Holy Synod]], as the head of the autonomous Orthodox Church in Italy. In 1993 he introduced the [[Revised Julian Calendar|reformed Julian calendar]] into the Orthodox Church in Italy, thus ending any association with the [[Old Calendarist]] movement. He died on [[February 20]], 2009, after a long illness. ==Source==*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_De_Rosso Antonio De Rosso (Wikipedia)] ==External link==*[http://www.chiesaortodossa.it/metropolia.html Ortodossia Italiana] (Italian) [[Category:Bishops]][[Category:20th-21st-century bishops|De Rosso]][[Category:Converts to Orthodox Christianity|De Rosso]][[Category:Converts to Orthodox Christianity from Roman Catholicism|De Rosso]]
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