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The Provisional Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church was headed by hegumen Gregory (Lourié), rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Elizabeth in St. Petersburg. Boris Redkin was elected his Deputy, a journalist Alexander Soldatov as Chancellor, and Olga Mitrenina (nun Xenia) as Secretary.
The Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is the name of the group of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in America that are under the canonical authority of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970 ...
Orthodox churches in America became a self-governing Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America in 1924 under the leadership of Metropolitan Platon (Rozhdestvensky), popularly called the Metropolia (from Russian: митрополия). The Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America was granted autocephaly by the Russian Orthodox ...
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia; Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada; Romanian Orthodox Church. Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada; Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia; Georgian Orthodox Church. Georgian Apostolic Orthodox ...
1.5 Russian Orthodox Church. ... 1.15 Orthodox Church in America. 1.16 Orthodox Church of Ukraine. 2 Autonomous Churches. Toggle Autonomous Churches subsection.
After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, communication between the Russian Orthodox Church and the churches of North America was almost completely cut off. In 1920, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow directed all Russian Orthodox churches outside of Russia to govern themselves autonomously until regular communication and travel could be resumed.
The Autonomous Metropolia claims to trace its roots back to a formation of the Patriarch of Moscow in the early 20th century. [3]The Autonomous Metropolia broke ties with the Moscow Patriarchate and placed itself under the omophorion first of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church [which?], [3] then of Archbishop Auxentios of Athens [] the primate of the True Orthodox Church of Greece []. [2]
"The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia is an indissoluble part of the Russian Orthodox Church, and for the time until the extermination in Russia of the atheist government, is self-governing on conciliar principles in accordance with the resolution of the Patriarch, the Most Holy Synod, and the Highest Church Council [Sobor] of the Russian ...