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The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America (ACROD) is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with 78 parishes in the United States and Canada. Though the diocese is directly responsible to the Patriarchate, it is under the spiritual supervision of the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America .
In the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the diocese is the basic church body that comprises all the parishes of a determined geographical area. It is governed by the Diocesan Bishop , with the assistance of a Diocesan Assembly and a Diocesan Council.
The headquarters of this North American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church was moved from Alaska to California around the mid-19th century. It was moved again in the last part of the same century, this time to New York. This transfer coincided with a great movement of Eastern Catholics to the Eastern Orthodox Church in the eastern United ...
In the small American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America — with roots in present-day Ukraine and Slovakia — parishes can choose their date. About a third are on the new calendar.
The St. Euphrosynia Belarusian Orthodox Church is a Belarusian Orthodox church in South River, New Jersey, a parish of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the United States. The head of the church is Rev. Fr. Konstanin Gavrilkin. [1]
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese; Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America; E. Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America and New York; G.
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Diocese: A History and Chronology. San Bernardino: St. Willibrord's Press, 1999. (ISBN 0912134216) Barriger, Lawrence. Glory to Jesus Christ!: History of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church. Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2000. (ISBN 1885652445) Barriger, Lawrence.
Although autonomy is an issue for North and Central American churches, there was no direct statement from the assembly regarding autonomy for the Church in North or Central America. Shortly after the May 2010 meeting the name of the assembly was changed to Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America to avoid possible ...