Diocese of East America and New York
The Diocese of Eastern America and New York ( English Diocese of Eastern America and New York , Russian Восточно-Американская и Нью-Йоркская епархия , Wostotschno-Amerikanskaja i Nju-Jorkskaja jeparchija ) is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad . The bishopric is associated with the rank of First Hierarch .
history
The Russian Church traces the establishment of the diocese back to the arrival of Bishop Vitaly Maximenko in the United States in 1934.
The diocese was established in its current form in 1946. In November of that year clerics and lay representatives of the North American metropolis passed a resolution on the Cleveland Sobor, according to which the contacts with the Moscow Patriarchate and the Synod of ROKA were interrupted. The communities resisted this cut. After the break of communion with the Metropolitan Theophilus Paschkovsky (Ebf. Of San Francisco, Metropolitan of All America and Canada), the ROKA gained a new structure in America and united about 40 parishes from the Metropolitan District . The administration of these parishes was entrusted to Archbishop Vitaly Maksimenko, who was given the title "Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City".
Bishops
Governing bishops
- Anastasius Gribanowski , First Hierarch of ROKA (1959 - 1964)
- Filaret Voznesensky , First Hierarch of ROKA (May 31, 1964 - November 21, 1985)
- Vitaly Ustinov , First Hierarch of ROKA (January 22, 1986 - August 10, 2001)
- Laurus Schkurla , First Hierarch of ROKA (October 27, 2001 - March 16, 2008)
- Hilarion Kapral , First Hierarch of ROKA (May 18, 2008 -)
Vicar Bishops
- Bishops of Manhattan
- James (Toombs) (July 12, 1951 - October 21, 1955)
- Laurus Schkurla (August 13, 1967 - June 18, 1976)
- Gregory (Grabbe) (1979-1981)
- Hilarion Kapral (December 10, 1984 - December 1995)
- Gabriel (Chemodakov) (October 5, 1996 - May 14, 2008)
- Jerome (Shaw) (December 10, 2008 - July 10, 2013)
- Nicholas (Olhovsky) (since June 29, 2014)
- Bishops of Mayfield
- George (Schaefer) (December 7, 2008 - October 7, 2014)
- Bishops of Erie
- Daniel (Alexandrov) (August 14, 1988 - April 26, 2010)
- Bishops of Boston
- Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky) (November 24, 1992 - February 15, 2002)
- Michael (Donskoff) (May 2002 - May 2006)
- Archbishops of Syracuse and Holy Trinity
- Abercius (Taushev) (May 25, 1953 - April 13, 1976)
- Laurus Schkurla (July 18, 1976 - October 25, 2001)
- Bishops of Washington
- Gregory (Grabbe) (1981–1985)
- Hilarion Kapral (1995–1996)
- Archbishops of Rockland
- Andrew (Rymarenko) (March 2, 1968 - July 12, 1978)
- Bishops of Florida
- Nikon (Rklitski) (June 27, 1948 - 1960?)
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Coordinates: 40 ° 10 ′ 23 ″ N , 74 ° 14 ′ 7.5 ″ W.