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[[Image:MotherGabrilia.jpg|100px|left]]'''[[Gabrielia (Papayannis)|Gerontissa Gabrielia]]''' (1897-1992), also known as '''Gavrilia''', was a 20th century saintly Greek Orthodox [[nun]]. Born in Constantinople on October 2/15, 1897 to Helias and Victoria Papayanni(s), was the fourth and last child of the family.  She went to England in 1938 to train in chiropody and physiotherapy, returning to Greece in 1945 and opening a psychiatry clinic.  In 1954, after the repose of her mother, she travelled to India and worked with the poorest of the poor.
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[[Image:John Shahovskoy.jpg|100px|left]]His Eminence the Most Reverend '''[[John (Shahovskoy) of San Francisco|John (Shahovskoy), Archbishop of San Francisco]]''' was one of the many émigrés from the Russian civil war who entered a [[monastic]] life in the Orthodox Church and became a diocesan [[bishop]] in the United States. After first being [[consecration|consecrated]] Bishop of Brooklyn in the American [[OCA|Metropolia]], he was elected Bishop of San Francisco and Western America and [[Archbishop]] in 1961, a position he held until his retirement in 1973; he resumed active ministry again in 1975, and finally retired in 1979.
  
In 1959, she went to [[Monastery]] of Mary and Martha in Bethany, Palestine, to become a nun, and she was told, for a prayer rule, to follow the Gospels and the writings of St. John Climacus, in the original Byzantine Greek.  In 1963, travelling to France and America, she returned to Greece and was tonsured to the Small Schema by Elder [[Amphilochios (Makris)|Amphilochios]] on Patmos, then returned to India, working with Fr [[Lazarus (Moore)]].
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Abp John's work in the World Council of Churches in the Central Committee between 1954-66 developed contacts that would be instrumental in the re-establishment of canonical relations between the Metropolia and the [[Church of Russia]], ultimately resulting in the granting of [[autocephaly]] to the Metropolia as the [[Orthodox Church in America]].
  
In 1992, having gone to many mission fields and finally returned to found a hesychastarion in Greece, she received the Great Schema from Fr Dionysios of Little St. Anne's Skete, Mount Athos.  In the same year, she reposed in Leros, Greece.
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While in retirement he remained active in Russian literary and ecumenical circles. Archbishop John was the author of many books and articles. He often employed the pen name of ''Strannik'' in his writings. He died on [[May 30]], 1989, in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried at the Serbian Cemetery in San Francisco.
  
 
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'''''Recently featured:''''' [[Gabrielia (Papayannis)]], [[Fall of Constantinople]], [[Seraphim of Sarov]], [[The Ladder of Divine Ascent]], [[John of Damascus]], [[Lindisfarne]], [[Edward the Martyr]].  ''Newly [[:Category:Featured Articles|featured articles]] are presented every '''Saturday'''.''
'''''Recently featured:''''' [[Fall of Constantinople]], [[Seraphim of Sarov]], [[The Ladder of Divine Ascent]], [[John of Damascus]], [[Lindisfarne]], [[Edward the Martyr]], [[Victor Pokrovsky]].  ''Newly [[:Category:Featured Articles|featured articles]] are presented every '''Saturday'''.''
 

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His Eminence the Most Reverend John (Shahovskoy), Archbishop of San Francisco was one of the many émigrés from the Russian civil war who entered a monastic life in the Orthodox Church and became a diocesan bishop in the United States. After first being consecrated Bishop of Brooklyn in the American Metropolia, he was elected Bishop of San Francisco and Western America and Archbishop in 1961, a position he held until his retirement in 1973; he resumed active ministry again in 1975, and finally retired in 1979.

Abp John's work in the World Council of Churches in the Central Committee between 1954-66 developed contacts that would be instrumental in the re-establishment of canonical relations between the Metropolia and the Church of Russia, ultimately resulting in the granting of autocephaly to the Metropolia as the Orthodox Church in America.

While in retirement he remained active in Russian literary and ecumenical circles. Archbishop John was the author of many books and articles. He often employed the pen name of Strannik in his writings. He died on May 30, 1989, in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried at the Serbian Cemetery in San Francisco.

Recently featured: Gabrielia (Papayannis), Fall of Constantinople, Seraphim of Sarov, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, John of Damascus, Lindisfarne, Edward the Martyr. Newly featured articles are presented every Saturday.