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Existing Icons of St. Raphael - gallery 2

Icon of All Saints of America

Icon of the Synaxis of All Saints Who Have Shone Forth in North America, written in 1994 by Ksenia Pokrovsky for Metropolitan Theodosius; located at the St. Sergius of Radonezh Chapel at the Chancery of the Orthodox Church America in Syosset, Long Island, New York

Detail - St. Raphael

A close up of St. Raphael from the same icon of All Saints of America

Detail - consecration with text

This icon, as the text explains, shows the consecration of St. Raphael as the first bishop to be consecrated on American soil. He was made an auxiliary bishop to St. Tikhon the Confessor, later the Patriarch of Moscow.