Patriarch Mukasa of Ezo and All Japan (The Orange Outback)

Patriarch Mukasa (Japanese: 天首領 蝦夷総 主教無傘 Tenshuryō Ezo Sōshukyō Mukasa) (born 7 June 1940) is the third and current Patriarch of Ezo and All Japan, succeeding Patriarch Shenouda (Morimoto) after the latter's death as the leader of the Japanese Orthodox Church. He ascended to the position after his election on 8 August 1985, three weeks after the death of Shenouda.

Early Life
Mukasa was born Kanzaki Ryūhei (神崎龍平) on 7 June 1940 in the city of Akita in the Akita Prefecture of Japan. His father was an Orthodox Abbot who ran a local monastery and his mother was a convert who had converted from Shintoism. He attended the Orthodox University of Shikuka where he majored in Religious Studies. After he graduated, he began was ordained as Mukasa and worked as a priest in his father's monastery.