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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 .
Carpatho-Rusyn Cultural and Educational Center, Munhall, PA. The Carpatho-Rusyn Society has purchased the historic former Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Munhall, Pennsylvania, to convert it into the nation's first National Carpatho-Rusyn Cultural Center. The historic structure was the first cathedral in America exclusively for Carpatho ...
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese; Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America; E. Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America and New York; G.
In 1951 a parish council was elected, with Father Nikolai Lapitzki selected as its first pastor. The parish celebrated their first worship on the second floor of the Conklin Methodist Church, a local church, whose Rev. G. Nelson Moore allowed to use it. The Church Council became a member of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America.
At this time all Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America were united under the omophorion (Church authority and protection) of the Patriarch of Moscow, through the Russian Church's North American diocese. The unity was not merely theoretical, but was a reality, since there was then no other diocese on the continent.
In 2001, under Bishop Cornelius Pasichny, it was released and received by Metropolitan Nicholas (Smisko) as an Apostolate of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. It serves all ages and all people in need regardless of background. Youth Summer camps are operated by the mission in co-operation with St Mary of Egypt Refuge.
The HALUPKI Festival, a celebration of Carpatho-Russian foods and culture, is presented annually on the third Sunday of August by Holy Assumption Orthodox Church, 114 East Main St. (Ohio 163).
1900 Name of Russian mission diocese changed from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska to the Aleutian Islands and North America, thus expanding its territorial boundaries. 1901 First Orthodox church in Canada, in Vostok, Alberta. 1902 Building of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York; first Romanian parish in North America founded in Regina, Saskatchewan.