Luke Murianka
Russian Orthodox clergy (b. 1951)
Bishop Luke (secular name Mark Murianka, Russian: Марк Петрович Мурьянка; November 10, 1951) is an American church leader. He serves as bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, current abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery, rector, associate professor of patrology of Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, New York, and auxiliary bishop of Syracuse, New York.
Career
He was born on November 10, 1951, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Orthodox parents, Peter and Olga, who emigrated from Carpatho-Russian village in the early twentieth century. As he said: "All of my ancestors hail from the same region of Carpathian Russia. My paternal grandfather organized parishes under the Russian Church when he arrived in America. It was he who brought me into the altar for the first time to serve when I was four years old. On my mother’s side, there are many generations of priests and four bishops, one of whom was a confessor for Orthodoxy against the Uniate heresy. My parents guided with simple Christian wisdom, and my father piously and conscientiously worked out his salvation as a funeral director, by burying all of the Orthodox Christians in Philadelphia"
Since 1979, he has been teaching the New Testament, apologetics, and comparative theology at the Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville. He pronounced his monastic vows in 1980.
Luke was ordained as a hieromonk on July 12, 1981, by Bishop Laurus (Škurla) of Syracuse.
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