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During the course of his ministry as an auxiliary bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in America St. Raphael founded the present-day cathedral of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North AmericaThe Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America (in full, the "Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America") is the sole jurisdiction of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada with exclusive jurisdiction over the Antiochi, established twenty-nine parishes, and assisted in the founding of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery.

Bishop Raphael was glorified (numbered among the saints) by the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in AmericaThe Orthodox Church in America (OCA is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, led by Metropolitan Herman. Its territory includes North America and South America including the Carribean and Central America. It began with the missionary work of the Ortho in its March 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri session. He is commemorated by the Orthodox Church in AmericaThe Orthodox Church in America (OCA is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, led by Metropolitan Herman. Its territory includes North America and South America including the Carribean and Central America. It began with the missionary work of the Ortho on February 27, the anniversary of his death, and by the Antiochian Orthodox ChurchThe Antiochian Orthodox Church is one of the five churches that comprised the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church before the Great Schism, and today is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. It claims to be the sole legitimate successor to on the first Saturday of November.