10/29/2022 0 Comments Daniel neculae iconographer![]() He is one of the few people left who can read the znamenny ("kriukovoi", or "hook-style") musical notation, which fell out of general usage in Russian Church singing in the early 18th century. He was a master iconographer, having studied in his youth with the famed Old Believer iconographer Pimen Sofronov, and knows the ancient methods with which to obtain all-natural pigments. He was temporary administrator of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand from 1995 to 1997.īishop Daniel was a man of many talents, which have been extremely useful to many people. The Church of the Nativity is his Cathedra, whose congregation he played an integral role in reuniting with the Russian Orthodox Church. On August 13, 1988, Hieromonk Daniel was consecrated a vicar bishop for the Diocese of Eastern America, with the title "Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, Defender of the Old Rite". In 1988, he received the monastic tonsure and the new name of Daniel. In August 1965, he was ordained deacon, and soon afterwards, priest. From his early years, Dimitri Borisovich was interested in the pre-Nikonian "Old Rite" of the Russian Orthodox Church, and decided to work toward somehow healing the schism of the Old Believers. From 1952 to 1958, Dimitri studied at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary (Jordanville, New York), finishing with the first graduating class, along with the future Metropolitan Laurus (Skurla). Thanks to family in the United States, the Alexandrows were able to emigrate to America, and came to New York in 1949. In 1944 they left westward with the fleeing German Army, and within two years found themselves living in the Alps. ![]() Alexandrow then moved her family back to Odessa. ![]() Within just a few months of the move, Boris was arrested and disappeared it was later found out he was executed. ![]() Due to anti-Communist family connections, Dimitri's father, Boris Alexandrow, decided to move the family to Zlatoust in the Ural Mountains in 1938. His Grace, the Right Reverend Bishop Daniel (Alexandrow) of Erie was a vicar bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, serving as Vicar President of the Synod of Bishops for the Old Believers under his jurisdiction's care.īishop Daniel was born Dimitri Borisovich Alexandrow in Odessa, Russia, in 1930. ![]()
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