*1905 [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)]] founded; Bp. [[Tikhon of Moscow|Tikhon (Belavin)]] raised to the rank of archbishop; seminary opened in Minneapolis; Russian Orthodox see transferred to New York; Fr. [[Sebastian Dabovich]] elevated to [[archimandrite]] and given charge over Serbian parishes by Tikhon.*1906 In an [[ukaz]]e dated [[January 27]], addressed to Archbishop Tikhon, the Holy Synod of Russia confirmed the practice of commemorating the American president by name, and not the Russan Tsar, during divine services; Blessing blessing of [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery]] by hierarchs Tikhon, Raphael and Innocent; 1st All-American Sobor held in Mayfield, PA, at which the name of the Russian mission was declared to be ''The Russian Orthodox Greek-Catholic Church in North America under the Hierarchy of the Russian Church''; translation of ''Service Book'' by [[Isabel Hapgood]].*1907 Abp. [[Tikhon of Moscow|Tikhon (Belavin)]] returns to Russia and is succeeded in his see by [[Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of New York|Platon (Rozhdestvensky)]] as Archbishop of the Aleutians and North America; Uniate Bp. Stephen Ortinsky sent to the US by Rome to stem the tide of Uniate returns to Orthodoxy; Papal decree ''Ea Semper'' issued, mandating all Uniate priests in American be celibate; First first [[Sunday of Orthodoxy]] service in New York; First first Bulgarian parish in Madison, Illinois.*1908 [[Church of Constantinople]] gives care for Greek Orthodox parishes in the US to the [[Church of Greece]]; first Albanian parish in Boston.