Archbishop

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Chrysostom ( Portuguese: ''Dom Chrisóstomo'' dõ kɾi'zɔstomu, born Luiz Felipe Muniz Freire,Parafia św. Jerzego - chirotonia bp. Chryzostoma (Muniza-Freiry)
is a Brazilian

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bishop, titled Archbishop of

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and

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under the

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. As a young member of a group of spiritual seekers, he found Orthodoxy through Metropolitan Dom Gabriel of

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, who baptised him and other seekers into the on the Feast of

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, 1986.Eparquia Ortodoxa do Brasil
In February 1987, he was ordained a priest into the

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, although the Lisbon Metropolis separated from this very jurisdiction on the same year, signing a union protocol with the

two years later. In 1991, after a period in a monastery in

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and already ordained an

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, he was consecrated in Grabarka a residential bishop for Brazil. In the following year, Chrysostom was consecrated in the Diocese of Rio de Janeiro and Olinda-Recife the first Orthodox bishop native to his country. Between the years of 2000 and 2001, a canonical crisis elevated his Diocese to the archdiocesan status after splitting it from the Lisboner Archdiocese, but not from the Church of Poland. Archbishop Chrysostom's episcopal see lies in the Most Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral, in Copacabana, with Bishop Dom Ambrose (Cubas) of Recife, parishes in the states of

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and

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, plus a mission in the state of

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and a monastery in João Pessoa under his omophorion.Mosteiro Ortodoxo da Dormição da Santa Mãe de Deus
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