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Saint Raphael of Brooklyn (November 20 1860 – February 27 1915) also known as Father Raphael was born as Raphael Hawaweeny (Arabic: رفائيل هواويني) in Beirut Lebanon of Damascene Syrian parents of Greek Orthodox Antiochite-Byzantine origin. He was first educated at the Damascus Patriarchal School that had become the leading Greek Orthodox institution of higher learning in the Levant under the leadership of Saint Joseph of Damascus.
