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Retired Diocesan Bishops: Michael (Donskoff), retired Archbishop of Geneva & Western Europe; Retired Vicar Bishops: Jerome (Shaw), retired Bishop of Manhattan; Bishops Received into the ROCOR in Retirement: Jonah (Paffhausen), retired; former Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada in the OCA
A number of ROCOR clergy and parishioners who opposed to reunification with the Moscow Patriarchate, including the suspended Bishop Varnava (Prokofieff) of Cannes, formed a new church administration around Metropolitan Vitaly, renaming themselves as the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile (ROCiE) then to "Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ...
Metropolitan Hilarion (born Igor Alexeyevich Kapral, Russian: Игорь Алексеевич Капра́л; 6 January 1948 – 16 May 2022) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First-Hierarch of the ROCOR since 18 May 2008; as the first person elected to that position following the Act of Canonical Communion between ...
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'.
After the retirement of Bishop Jerome (Shaw) from the See of Manhattan on July 10, 2013, the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR deliberated during a meeting that December and on the eve of the feast of the Kursk-Root icon, decided upon the candidacy of Fr. Nicholas Olhovsky to become the next vicar bishop of Manhattan. On March 19, 2014, the Holy Synod ...
Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America. Archbishop Kyrill (Russian: Архиепископ Кирилл, secular name Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriyev or Dmitrieff, Russian: Борис Михайлович Дмитриев; born 24 November 1954), is the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).
On June 27, 2019, the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR, after reviewing the results of a survey of the members of the Bishops' Council, elected Hegumen James as Bishop of Sonora, vicar of the Western American Diocese. [4] In addition, he was confirmed as the abbot of the Monastery of St. Silouan of Athos in Sonora, California. [7]
Bishop Gregory from the very beginning was a supporter of the opening of ROCOR parishes in USSR, made a trip to Suzdal from May 16 to 24, 1995, where he participated in divine services, meetings of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR, having rendered this visit invaluable support to Bishop Valentin and the clergy of the former Suzdal-Vladimir ...