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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.
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 ...
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).
Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Orthodox Church in America 34°04′50″N 118°16′47″W / 34.0804841°N 118.2797613°W / 34.0804841; -118.2797613 ( Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Los Angeles, California
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 .
The Russian Orthodox church was drastically weakened in May 1922, when the Renovated (Living) Church, a reformist movement backed by the Soviet secret police, broke away from Patriarch Tikhon (also see the Josephites and the Russian True Orthodox Church), a move that caused division among clergy and faithful that persisted until 1946.
Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Orthodox Church in America 34°04′50″N 118°16′47″W / 34.0804841°N 118.2797613°W / 34.0804841; -118.2797613 ( Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Los Angeles, California
In 1933, the Russian Church declared the Metropolia to be schismatic. [16] A third Russian church, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad (also known as the Karlovtsy Synod and later, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia or ROCOR), formed in 1921. The synod saw itself as representing all Russian Orthodox abroad, including the ...