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<!--nb. portrait images at ~100px, landscape images at ~200px-->[[Image:Alexis of Wilkes-Barre tomb.jpg|100px|left]] Our righteous father ''The '''[[Alexis Episcopal Assembly of Wilkes-BarreNorth and Central America]]''''' was a [[missionary]] [[priest]], sent from his homeland founded in Slovakia as a [[Uniate]]2010, who, in order to serve consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and protect his flock in the United States in a hostile Latin environmentCentral America, recognized the need to lead them in a return to their Orthodox Christian heritagerepresenting multiple jurisdictions. Father Alexis Toth gained the distinction of being It is the first Uniate Greek Rite Catholic priest in America to lead his people in reunion with the Orthodox Church. Having been sent originally to America to be a missionary successor to the immigrantsSCOBA, Father Alexisand it is not, in his new roleproperly speaking, was to fulfill his destiny as the missionary leading his people back to the Orthodox Churcha synod. Through his efforts over 20,000 Carpatho-Russian The Episcopal Assembly of North and Galician uniates were re-united with Central America is one of several such bodies around the Orthodox Church. On [[May 7]], 1909, he died and was buried world which operate in a special shrine at the [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)]]. On [[May 29]], 1994, Protopresbyter Alexis Toth was [[glorification|glorified]] as St. Alexis of Wilkesso-Barre. His [[feast day]] is celebrated on [[May 7]]called "diaspora."

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