Notes:

^† According to a certified copy of the death certificate of Sophronius Bishara, whose last name is often misspelled "Beshara", he reposed on 9/19/1934, and not on 10/8/1940 or "1940" as reported by others including Denis Michel Garrison et al of Maryland (excommunicated, deposed, and anathemized), Bertil Persson of Sweden, and Khalil Samara of Antiochian Village based on headstone information "Bishop Sophronios [sic] Beshara [sic] 1888[sic]-1940 [sic]".  To the present, the official records of the "Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese [sic]" continue to misspell Bishara as Beshara and to spell Sophronios with a Greek spelling instead of the correct Russian transliteration of Sophronius.

In  fact, the Antiochians do not know the date or place of birth of Bishara or when Bishara died.  This is because they rely on writings by the pseudonym of "Fr. Bartimaeus", a name used by Terry Tyler, and whose writings are also attributed to Leslie C Sinclair who runs "Apostolic Orthodox Catholic Church", an acronym identical to and confusingly similar to "American Orthodox Catholic Church", the remnant which they also mistakenly claim to be.  Tyler and Sinclair attempt to rewrite history by claiming Bishara was born "1888" in "Middle East", died on 5 October 1940 and was buried on 8 October 1940, within two days after obtaining the body and less than 24-hours after the death certificate time stamp, and with remains "reburied" in "August 1988" [sic].  (That the Antiochians became interested in the decedent's remains about 50 years after death makes no sense.)  The death certificate that exists for a decedent at that time is of a man named Sophronios [sic] Bishara: with no social security number; no month, day, or place of birth, other than "1888" "Syria"; who died of kidney disease with onset in 1925 about 15 years earlier; and for whom on the death certificate and on the funeral director's certificate is twice  forged the signature of  the decedent's "Brother" named "Chris Beshara" [sic] and which also misspells the first name as Sophronios and the last name twice as Beshara.  It is remarkable that the alleged informant on the death certificate as a brother to the decedent would not know the month and day of birth of his own brother.  The recorded hospital location of death has no such record.  No obituary data in The New York Times, or another specified newspaper, exists to verify the date of death.  Tyler and Sinclair also wrote dishonestly that on "10 [sic] February 1934" "Beshara [sic]  ... co-consecrated Christopher Contogeorge ... along with Archbishop Aftimios and Albanian Metropolitan Theophan (Fan Noli)".  That lie is contradicted in the fact that participation by Ofiesh was impossible because he was married ten months earlier on 29 April 1933 and subsequently performed no official episcopal acts for the remainder of his life until 1966 when he died.

Mariam Namey Ofiesh, the widow of Aftimios Ofiesh,  stated more than once and wrote that Bishara died in 1934, about a year after Emmanuel Abohatab (5/3/1933).  The published records of Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral also state that Bishara died at a time between the deaths of Emmanuel in 1933 and Victor Abouassaly in 1934. 

The correct death year for Bishara is also independently corroborated by other writers published before 1981 with the subsequent nonsense of Tyler et al 15 years later in March, 1996.  

Here is the correct information from Bishara's death certificate: he died at the age of 28 from tuberculosis and pneumonia, making his birth year in 1906 in Syria; his given name was not Sophronios; he was in the United States since 1922 at the age of about 16; his mother's name was Zahia Okey; his father's name was Charles; his profession was "Clerk"; and he was buried on 9/22/1934, three days after dying.  It is also in keeping with the tradition of the time that Bishara used Sophronius as a Church name which was not his birth name.  Therefore the misspelled name Sophronios on certificates with sections forged by a funeral director for the name of Beshara in 1940 cannot possibly be for the correct person who used Sophronius as a Church name and who died according to independent witnesses in 1934 and for whom a death certificate exists that clearly contains no forgery.

The New York Times reported that Beshara [sic] was in attendance at the consecration of Christopher Contogeorge on 2/11/1934 in Bronx, NY. 

An article without date, as published on the internet by Michael Kirkland, states "Sophronios celebrated the consecrating mass [sic]" and therefore is a rank forgery.  (Note: Kirkland was convicted of Felony Forgery/Utterance for filing false insurance claims about church property that was not stolen; he subsequently served about 15-months until 12/01/98 in the Franklin County (Ohio) Correctional Facility (The Workhouse).)

Some have taken Bishara's presence there as evidence that he acted as consecrator of  Contogeorge, but that is nonsense because in Orthodoxy only the senior bishop consecrates with junior bishops simply attesting corporately to the fact.  Noli's consecration in 1923 predates Bishara's in 1928 by over four years.  The argument from presence attests to the fact that many impostors, including Kirkland above who now claims a nexus with the Antiochains which they strenuously deny, attempt to connect Contogeorge with Bishara in order to supersede the dubious lines deriving from Contogeorge's recorded consecrator Fan Stylian Noli who provably acted without Orthodox  mandate or authority. 

Furthermore, the respective jurisdictions verified as forgeries these documents claimed by Kirkland:  a letter exonerating Contogeorge of March 1, 1945 from Athenagaros and the "Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America"; and a letter  recognizing Zurawetzky as "valid and canonical" of 1973 from Nikolaos VI of the Greek Orthodox Church in Alexandria, Egypt.

A published obituary for Contogeorge who died on August 30, 1950 states that in 1936, over two years after his consecration, Contogeorge, an archbishop from Lowell, MA, arrived in Bronx, NY to commence duties there.  In fact, the last known consecration by Bishara was that of More-Moreno on 11/7/1933 in New York City.

^‡ The literature contains many errors concerning More-Moreno.  He was not later consecrated by John Thomas Beckles on 11/20/1943; he did not consecrate Perry Nikolaus Cedarholm on 12/6/1949 in New York City; and he did not consecrate Harold FA Jarvis on 10/30/1949 in Rockville Center, NY.  In fact, the only known consecration by More-Moreno was that of Robert C Adair (John) and Robert P Adair (Gregory) on 6/22/1958 in New York City.