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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 ...
In the United States there are numerous notable Russian Orthodox churches, including many that were listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as part of one study. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Alaska, the Russian America community includes more than 20,000 members of the Russian Orthodox church.
Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Caribbean; Russian Orthodox Church. Russian Orthodox Church in Canada; Russian Orthodox Church in the USA [1] Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia; Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada; Romanian Orthodox Church
Holy Orthodox Church in North America. Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Monastery (Boston Monks), Brookline, Massachusetts. Abbot Isaac. Holy Ascension Skete, York, Maine; Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles. Abbey of the Holy Name, West Milford, New Jersey (Western Rite).
Albanian Orthodox Church in Worcester, Massachusetts.. One of the effects of the persecution and administrative chaos wreaked on the Russian Orthodox Church by the Bolshevik Revolution was a flood of refugees from Russia to the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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 Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the United States and Canada, who had come chiefly from the vilayets of Adana ...