Archbishop Dmitri was born Robert R. Royster into a Baptist family in Teague, TX on November 2, 1923.  He often credited his mother with providing him and his sister with a strong, initial faith in Christ.  After discovering Orthodox Christianity as teens, he and his sister asked their mother for a blessing to convert, whereupon she asked one basic yet predictive question: “Does the Orthodox Church believe in Christ as Lord and Savior?