Aftimios Ofiesh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1880
Place of Birth: Bikfaya, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon
Date of Death: 24-Jul-1966
Profession: priest
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Aftimios Ofiesh
- Abdullah Aftimios Ofiesh (22 October 1880, Bikfayya Al-Muhaydathah, Lebanon - 24 July 1966, Kingston, Pennsylvania) was an early 20th-century Orthodox bishop in America, serving as the immediate successor to St.
- Raphael of Brooklyn under the auspices of the Church of Russia.
- He held the title Bishop of Brooklyn from 1917 to April 1933, when he married, thus deposing himself from the episcopacy.
- He led the American Orthodox Catholic Church for six years and is perhaps best known as being the source of various lines of succession of episcopi vagantes.
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