Carpatho-Russian Church in America
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA ( English American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA ) is an Orthodox church inside part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel in the US and Canada.
It emerged in 1935 from an opposition group of American members of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church as an Orthodox Church and was placed under the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1938. The seat of their bishop (metropolitan) is Johnstown , Pennsylvania . A monastery exists in Tuxedo Park , New York .
Bishops (metropolitans)
- Orestes P. Chornock (1938–1977)
- Peter Shymansky ( auxiliary bishop , 1963–1964)
- John Martin (Auxiliary Bishop 1966–1977, Senior Bishop 1977–1984)
- Nicholas Smisko (1985-2011)