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The main source of income for the ROCOR central authority is lease of a part of the building that houses the headquarters of the ROCOR's Synod of Bishops situated at the intersection of East 93rd Street and Park Avenue to a private school, estimated in 2016 to generate about US$500,000; the ROCOR was said not to make any monetary contributions ...
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
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 ...
It continues to be governed by its Council of Bishops and its Synod, the council's permanent executive body. The First-Hierarch and bishops of the ROCOR are elected by its council and confirmed by the Patriarch of Moscow. ROCOR bishops participate in the Council of Bishops of the entire Russian Church.
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 beginning of this body was laid in 1990, when the cleric of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archimandrite Valentin (Rusantsov), was admitted to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) and began to create new parishes in his subordination, receiving the rank of bishop of Suzdal in 1991. In 1995, Bishops Valentin (Rusantsov), Theodore ...
At the Council of Bishops in May 2006, he was transferred to the Geneva and Western European Diocese. [2] December 9, 2011 at the winter session of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church he was elevated to the rank of archbishop [3] In 2018 he was retired. [1]
Synod of Bishops of ROCOR on May 5–7, 2009 decided to form a commission to study the relationship with the Orthodox Church in America and to hold joint meetings to discuss the sources of the division between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the American Metropoliate; bishop George became its president; also Synod of Bishops ...