Chrysostom (Muniz Freire)

Archbishop Dom Chrysostom (Portuguese: Dom Chrisóstomo ['dõ kɾi'zɔstomu]), born Luiz Felipe Muniz Freire,[1] is a Brazilian Orthodox bishop, titled Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro and Olinda-Recife under the Polish Orthodox Church.

As a young member of a group of spiritual seekers, he found Orthodoxy through Metropolitan Dom Gabriel of Lisbon, who baptised him and other seekers into the on the Feast of Pentecost, 1986.[2] On February 1987, he was ordained a priest into the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece, although the Lisbon Metropolis separated from this very jurisdiction on the same year, signing a union protocol with the Polish Orthodox Church two years later. In 1991, after a period in a monastery in Mafra and already ordained an Archimandrite, he was consecrated in Grabarka a residential bishop for Brazil.[1] 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 Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Paraíba and a monastery in João Pessoa under his omophorion.[2][3]

References
  1. (in Polish) Parafia św. Jerzego - chirotonia bp. Chryzostoma (Muniza-Freiry) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. (in Portuguese) Eparquia Ortodoxa do Brasil Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. (in Portuguese) Mosteiro Ortodoxo da Dormição da Santa Mãe de Deus
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