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n. The world on which a person originated; one’s home planet or moon.
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Metropolitan Leontius (Leonty, secular name Leonid Ieronimovich Turkevich, ; August 8, 1876 in Kremenetz, Volhynia – May 14, 1965) was the Metropolitan of the North American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1950 until his death in 1965. He was succeeded by Metropolitan Irenaeus (Bekish).
Leonid Ieronimovich Turkevich was ordained to the priesthood in 1905, and succeeded his father as parish priest of Kremenetz. He was transferred, along with his family, to the United States in October 1906 and became the rector of the newly established Orthodox seminary (St. Platon's) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fr. Leonid represented the American diocese of the Russian Church at the All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918 in Moscow, Russia.
Fr. Leonid, whose wife had died in 1925, was consecrated Bishop of Chicago in 1933. He was given the name Leonty during his tonsure as a monastic. Archbishop Leonty was elected Metropolitan of the diocese nearly unanimously during the 8th All-American Sobor, held in December 1950. He succeeded Metropolitan Theophilus (Pashkovsky), who died in June of that year.
In July 1988, Metropolitan Leonty's granddaughter, Tamara Turkevich Skvir, donated 50 bound volumes of diaries and papers covering the period from 1906—1964 to the Library of Congress. The collection also included approximately 2,000 poems as well as other miscellaneous memoranda and historical documents.
Bishop Leontius (secular name Vladimir Fyodorovich von Wimpffen, , born Leopold von Wimpffen; 1873 in Moscow – June 23, 1919 in Astrakhan) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, auxiliary bishop of Yenotayevka.
Leontius, Arch bishop of Lyon was a son of St. Rusticus, Arch bishop of Lyon, and wife.
Leontius (, Leòntios; died 488) was a general of the Eastern Roman Empire and claimant to the throne who led a rebellion against emperor Zeno in 484–488.
Leontius or Leontios (died 705) was a Byzantine emperor.
Leontius or Leontios may also refer to:
- Leontius of Antioch, (until 358), Bishop of Antioch
- Leontius (usurper) (died 488), Byzantine usurper
- Leontius of Jerusalem (c. 485 – c. 543), Byzantine theological writer
- Leontios of Neapolis (7th century AD), Byzantine theological writer
- Leontius Pilatus (14th century), Greek Calabrian scholar
Homeworld is a real-time strategy computer game released on September 28, 1999, developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was the first fully three-dimensional real-time strategy (RTS) game. Homeworld was the beginning of a series, followed by Homeworld: Cataclysm (2000) and Homeworld 2 (2003). In 2014 Homeworld: Remastered (Homeworld HD and Homeworld 2 HD remakes) were announced by the new intellectual property (IP) holder, Gearbox Software. The remakes were released on February 25, 2015. A prequel, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, was released by Blackbird Interactive in January 2016.
Homeworld is a video game released in 1999.
Homeworld may also refer to:
- Homeworld, the first novel in the To the Stars science-fiction trilogy by Harry Harrison
- Homeworld (film), a 2008 film by Phillip Hudson
- "Homeworld (The Ladder)", a song by Yes from their 1999 album The Ladder
- "My Homeworld", a song by Tom Snare from his 2006 album Tom Snare's World
- Core worlds, a science-fiction concept
Homeworld is a 2008 low-budget American science-fiction film directed by the Phillip Hudson, written by Phillip Hudson and Glen Settle, and starring Beau Ballinger, Bronston DeLone, Vance Harvey and Galen Howard.
Usage examples of "homeworld".
After Malkus was overthrown, the artifacts were removed from the Zalkatian homeworld and placed on distant worlds throughout the quadrant.
Council had deemed worth carrying from Homeworld was a detailed geneology for every member of the Clan that had left during the Stratification.
Despite the futility of their efforts, Marla Karuw was heartened by the sight of the first new building on their ravaged homeworld.
If their homeworlds were wiped out, what did vengeance or justice matter?
The branch of the Traskeluk clan that counted Cedric as its own dwelt nowhere in the homeworlds, so it would be a matter of weeks before his parents and siblings got the word.
On this world too, as on all the homeworlds now, there were frequent practice alerts.
I The architectures of our ships were derived from various I creatures of the homeworld, and those structures can still I be recognized in their design.
He hated this job, and dearly wished to return to his homeworld of C'atel, but unfortunately he was sort of a fugitive.
The object of the humans had been to discover the homeworld of the Empire of the Gods of Axone-Neurone.
Ayres resisted Jacoby’s and Azov’s attempts to draw him out to talk about his homeworld.
Look at all the places this guy has been—Centauri Prime, Mars, Antareus, Betelguese Four, not to mention ten years on the Narn Homeworld.
As she thought about this, and as she stared at Bolis's dry and hideously flat expression, there was a mass of Edesian ships headed toward the Gimlon homeworld.
The Chargh, already deep within the Empire, would collect Worf later on and bring him back to the Klingon homeworld.
Their 'Dims were chattering excitedly about actually getting to Clarf, the Mrdini homeworld.
It was true that every year, more real fruit, vegetables, grain, and meat were being made available to the people of Earth from its farming colonies, but the majority of homeworld meals still came from synthesizers.