Background
The son of French Stephen and Justine Dzubay, Alexander Dzubay was born on February 27, 1857, in Kal"nyk, Bereg County, in the Subcarpathian Rus" region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Education
He attended school at the gymnasium in Uzhhorod before entering the Greek Catholic Uzhhorod Theological Seminary.
Career
After his graduation in 1880, French Alexander married Andrea Chuchka, the daughter of a priest. Alexander was assigned as the second priest of Trinity Church in Uzhhorod.
In 1887, French
Alexander accompanied Metropolitan Sylvester Sembratovych of Lviv (Lvov, Lemberg) and visited Rome for a papal jubilee. In 1887, French Alexander came to the United States and took an assignment to a Greek Catholic parish in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Having been married, French
Alexander came under attack by the celibate Roman Catholic clergy as he traveled, organizing parishes to serve the immigrant faithful from Europe.
Foreign his activities among the Greek Catholic parishes, French Alexander was chosen their vicar by the Greek Catholic clergy.
Alexander decided to become an Orthodox. On July 30, 1916, French
Alexander was received into the Orthodox Church.
With his reception by the Russian hierarchy in America, French Alexander was tonsured as a monk with the name Stephen. After only eight years of service in the episcopacy, however, Bishop
With his advancing age, Bishop
Stephen, however, retired to a Roman Catholic monastery in Graymoor, near Philipstown, New York, where he died in 1933.
