The Right Reverend Bishop '''Stephen (Dzubay) of Pittsburgh''' (né '''Alexander Dzubay''') was a [[bishop]] of the [[OCA|Russian American Metropolia]], received from the [[Unia]] in 1916. He had served as a Uniat Uniate [[priest]] in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, prior to his reception into Orthodoxy, and had been a schoolmate of St. [[Alexis Toth]] in their native land.

==Life==The son of Fr. Stephen and Justine Dzubay, Alexander Dzubay was born on [[February 27]], 1857 in Kalnik, Berezhanents, in the Carpatho-Russian region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He attended school at the gymnasium in Uzhgorod before entering the Uniate Uzhgorod Theological Seminary. After his graduation in 1880, Fr. Alexander married Andrea Chuchka, the daughter of a priest.  After his marriage he entered the [[Holy Orders]] and was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] and then a priest followed by his assignment to a [[parish]] in Lokhovo. After his wife died in November 1881, Fr. Alexander was assigned as the second priest of Trinity Church in Uzhgorod. In 1887, Fr. Alexander accompanied the Metropolitan of Sembratov visited Rome for a papal jubilee.  In 1887, Fr. Alexander came to the United States and took an assignment to a Uniate parish in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Having been married, Fr. Alexander came under attack by the celibate Roman Catholic [[clergy]] as he traveled, organizing parishes to serve the immigrant faithful from Europe. For his activities among the Uniate parishes, Fr. Alexander was chosen their [[vicar]] by the Uniate clergy. Becoming disillusioned by the Unia, Fr. Alexander decided to become an Orthodox. On [[July 30]], 1916, Fr. Alexander was received into the Orthodox Church. With his reception by the Russian hierarch hierarchy in America, Fr. Alexander was [[tonsure]]d as a [[monk]] with the name Stephen and then . Then on [[August 7]], 1916, he was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated to the episcopacy]] in 1917 as Bishop of Pittsburgh, an [[auxiliary bishop]] , to minister to the needs of the former Uniates Carpatho-Russian ex-Uniates, whose [[parish]]es numbered over 160 when he was received (out of roughly 200 total Russian Orthodox parishes in the American Lower 48). After only eight years of service in the episcopacy, however, Bp. Stephen returned back to the Unia , with hopes of heading a Uniate [[diocese]], and the Carpatho-Russian [[Ethnic diocese|ethnic diocese ]] of the Metropolia was dissolved. With his advancing age, Bp. Stephen, however, retired to a Roman Catholic [[monastery]] in Graymoor, New York. where he died in 1933.

after=?[[Benjamin (Basalyga) of Pittsburgh|Benjamin (Basalyga)]]}}