My dear and wonderful Ukrainian Catholic Brothers,
(Just love y'a guys!)
In actual fact, the use consists of the Hierarch's Christian name coupled with the name of his Eparchy.
This goes back to the times when Bishops were "of one wife" (that was a good rule, no? I mean, why burden people with additional wives?).
This serves to underscore the very intimate relation between the Bishop and his people and so he loses, in effect, his surname and gains another surname, that of the place where his flock resides.
Even the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, although not a monk, follows this tradition and when Michael Ramsey became Archbishop he became, "Michael Cantuar."
Popes were always called, "Clemens Romanus" Alexander Romanus etc.
This also applied to pilgrims and Greek pilgrims to the Holy Land were enabled to prefix their Christian names with "Hatzi" coming from the Arabic "Hajj" or the pilgrimage (e.g. "Hatzi-paulou, Hatzialexandrou - which is what I sometimes call myself, having completed an official pilgrimage to Jerusalem).
People making pilgrimages to Rome always, later on, took on the surname "Roman."
This is my surname (it isn't really "Orthodox Catholic"
).
My ancestors were all pilgrims to Rome and this is where they got the surname.
My grandfather was born unable to walk for the first seven years of his life.
An uncle went to Rome and brought back some Holy Water from the Church that marked the spot of St Paul's Martyrdom by beheading.
My great grandfather Leo, living in the Carpathians as he did, called his entire village together.
Before them, he made a vow to God to dedicate his son, John, to the Priesthood if he could ever walk again.
He then picked up little John and dipped him three times in the Holy Water and then placed him on his feet.
John walked from that moment on, became a Priest and served God as such for 70 years.
Even though he really wanted to become a lawyer . . .
Hatzi-Alex Roman
Pilgrim of Jerusalem
(when you're Hatzi, you're Hatzi!)
[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: Orthodox Catholic ]
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