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His Beatitude the Most Reverend [[Metropolitan]] '''The [[Church Ireney (Bekish) of AlbaniaNew York]]''' was born on [[October 2]], 1892, in Mezhirech in Lublin province, which today is one of in southeast Poland. After graduating from seminary, he [[marriage|married]] and was employed as a [[reader]], until 1916 when he entered the [[autocephaly|autocephalousclergy]]. After [[ordination]] as a [[deacon]], he was ordained a [[priest]] by [[Bishop]] Orthodox churches whose territory consists Seraphim of Belsk on [[August 1]], 1916. On [[March 20]], 1952, Fr. John arrived with his family in the Republic United States and was assigned as the priest of AlbaniaHoly Trinity Church in McAdoo, Pennsylvania. On [[March 31]], 1953, his wife Xenia died and was buried in the Holy Trinity cemetery in MacAdoo.
The '''Church After being elected Bishop of Albania''' as Tokyo, then a church using [[diocese]] in the Albanian language is Metropolia, Fr. John was [[tonsure]]d a latecomer to an ancient region [[monk]] on [[May 28]], 1953, and given the name of EuropeIreney. The heritage of Transferred back to the Byzantine Roman Empire that resided in the areas in which Albanians lived meant that Greek United States on [[June 14]], 1960, Abp. Ireney was appointed Archbishop of Boston and of the language Diocese of their churchesNew England. He was also made a special assistant to Metr. It Leonty who was only in recent timesaging and ailing. With Metr. Leonty's death on [[May 14]], that is1965, the last hundred years or so, as nationalism came to the forefront in the Balkans that the idea came of an independent Albanian country in which the Orthodox church would use Albanian as its liturgical languageAbp. The idea of an Albanian liturgical language Ireney was in part realized through elected [[Locum Tenens]] by the efforts Great Council of an Albanian Orthodox émigré in Bishops pending the United States election of America who a new Metropolitan.  Under his leadership the central administration continued to mature and negotiations actively began translating with the Orthodox services into Albanian, became an Orthodox [[priestPatriarch]]of Moscow to resolve the ill feelings that had developed since the Bolshevik Revolution, and began using which resolved into the Albanian translations among Albanian communities both in America and Europe. This was granting of [[Theophan (Noli) of Durres |Fr. Theophan (Fan) Noliautocephaly]] to the Metropolia as the [[Orthodox Church in 1908America]].
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