Elias Wen
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Elias Wen
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Fr. Elias Wen, Chinese name Wen Zizheng, was the oldest clergyman of the Eastern Orthodox Church when he died aged 110 in San Francisco, California. Fr. Elias was born into a poor bricklayer/tiler family in Beijing in 1896 and converted to the Orthodox Christian Faith aged 7. From 1905 to 1916 he studied at the Russian Orthodox Mission school in Beijing, and then at the Seminary there from 1916 until 1925. He was ordained a deacon in 1924, and a priest in 1925. On 24 June 1935, he became one of
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