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28-29 June. The 30th anniversary of the canonization of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco will be celebrated at the Cathedral of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in San Francisco, CA. 4-26 June. The First Hierarch will make an official visit to the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand of the Russian Church Abroad.
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ( Russian: Ру́сская Правосла́вная Це́рковь Заграни́цей, romanized : Rússkaya Pravoslávnaya Tsérkov Zagranítsey, lit. 'Russian Orthodox Church Abroad'), also called Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia or ROCOR, or Russian Orthodox Church Abroad ( ROCA ), is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox ...
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, ROCOR, the Karlovsty Synod, or the Synod) is a semi- autonomous jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate originally formed in response against the policy of Bolsheviks with respect to religion in the Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution. The ROCOR exists overlapping with previously ...
- Nicholas (Olhovsky), First Hierarch
- 1922
- Semi-autonomous
- Russia
In all our territories, the Church Abroad bears witness to traditions inherited from Holy Russia’s pre-revolutionary history, with its own liturgical and pastoral customs that form an important, unique part of the vibrant witness of Orthodox unity throughout the world. Its century-long history as a church in the Diaspora means that we are ...
Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, both diocesan and vicar, are members of the Local and Bishops’ Sobor of the Russian Orthodox Church and participate in established order in meetings of the Holy Synod. Representatives of the clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia participate in the Local ...
On December 8-9, 2021, under the auspices of the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God ‘of the Sign’ and presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, the first in-person session of the Synod of Bishops since December 2019 was held in New York City. Taking part in the meeting of the Synod ...
Nov 29, 2021 · The 20th century history of the Russian diaspora is so multifarious that scholars will likely be studying the history of emigre church communities after 1917 for many years to come. Of course, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has a special place in this history.
