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Aleksandr Hotovitsky (1872–1937) was an influential missionary among the Eastern Rite Catholics, or Uniates, in the northeastern United States. He was born to a priestly family in present-day Ukraine. After his ordination, Hotovitsky was sent as a missionary to North America in 1895. First based in New York City, he established parishes in parts of New York and Pennsylvania, where new immigrants from Galicia (present-day Poland and Ukraine) and the Carpathian Mountains (in present-day Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, and Romania) had settled. Hotovitsky was instrumental in raising funds for the ...