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His Grace Eminence '''Dionysius (Diachenko)''' was a hierarch of the Bishop of Pittsburgh Orthodox Christian Church who held [[see]]s in the United States of America with the Russian North American Mission ([[Metropolia]]) in and the [[Church of Russia|Moscow Patriarchate]] during the mid twentieth century. As an  ==Life==Archbishop Dionysius was born Dmitry Diachenko (Russian: Дмитрий Дьяченко) in 1882. After completing his secondary education he attended and graduated from the Stavropol Theological [[Seminary]]. He then entered the [[Kazan Theological Academy]], from which he graduated in 1909 with a degree of candidate of theology. Then, he joined the historical-philological faculty of St. Petersburg University and the St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute. In 1914, he was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[priest]] in the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] in Vladikavkaz in the North Caucasus where on [[August 26]], 1914, he was designated a staff member of the Vladikavkaz spiritual consistory. Raised to the dignity of archpriest, Fr. Dmitry was appointed rector of St. Michael the Archangel [[Cathedral]] in Vladikavkaz. With the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 and the Civil War that followed, Fr. Dmitry ended up in far eastern Siberia. From there he emigrated to China in 1920 where he lived and served in Shanghai. In 1935, he was [[tonsure]]d a [[monk]] with the name Dionysius in the Shanghai cathedral and subsequently was elevated to the rank of [[archimandrite]] . In the mid-1940s he emigrated to the United States.  During the years 1944 to 1947, he served as [[Dean]] of [[St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, New York)|St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary]] from 1944 to under the [[jurisdiction]] of the Russian North American Mission. On [[December 7]], 1947. Then, he was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] a [[bishopBishop]] and served as Bishop of Pittsburghand West Virginia. {{stub}}During the Eighth [[All-American Sobor]] of December 1950, he announced the election of [[Archbishop]] [[Leonty (Turkevich) of New York|Leonty]] as the new [[metropolitan]] of the Metropolia after the vote by the [[Synod]] of Bishops. In 1957, he joined the Moscow Patriarchate as the Deputy to the Exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Americas with the title of Bishop of New York. In 1957, Bp. Dionysius was raised to the rank of [[archbishop]], and in 1958 he was appointed Archbishop of San Francisco and California under the Moscow Patriarchate. In 1960, he retired, and on [[September 12]], 1967, he reposed in San Francisco.

years=1947?-1952?|

*[http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Saint_Vladimir's_Orthodox_Theological_Seminary Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary]*[http://www.oca.org/HSprimatialelections.html Primatial Elections in the OCA]* [http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/gi/d_009.htm Archbishop Dionysius (Dmitry Dyachenko) (Dionysius (Diachenko)) (skonch. 1967)] In Russian* [http://174.123.24.242/leagle/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=197134719CalApp3d328_1317.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985 JOHNATHAN v. SHEA]*[http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp3d/19/328.html Johnathan v. Shea 19 Cal. App. 3d 328]