Saint Alexis Toth (or Alexis of Wilkes-Barre; March 18 1853 Kobylnice — May 7 1909 Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania) was a Russian Orthodox church leader in the Midwestern United States who having resigned his position as a Byzantine Catholic priest in the Ruthenian Catholic Church became responsible for the conversions of approximately 20000 Eastern Rite Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church which contributed to the growth of Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States and the eventual establishment of the Orthodox Church in America.
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