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founded=1938|
bishop=Bp. [[Nicholas Gregory (SmiskoTatsis) of AmissosNyssa|Metr. NicholasGregory of Nyssa]]|see=AmissosNyssa|
hq=Johnstown, Pennsylvania|
territory=United States, Canada|
website=[http://www.acrod.org/ ACROD]
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The '''American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese''' (ACROD) is a [[diocese]] of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] with about 75 [[parish]]es in the United States and Canada, which is led by Metropolitan Bishop [[Nicholas Gregory (SmiskoTatsis) of AmissosNyssa]]. 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]]. Its full name is the '''American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A.'''.
==History==
The diocese was founded in 1938 when a group of 37 Carpatho-Russian [[Uniate]] parishes were received into the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, having the year before officially renounced the Unia with Rome, primarily in protest over [[Latinization]]s occurring in their church life, particularly a 1929 papal decree mandating that Eastern Rite [[clergy]] in the US were to be celibate.
This move marked the second group of Carpatho-Russian parishes to return to Orthodoxy, the first having been led by St. [[Alexis of Wilkes-Barre]] into the jurisdiction of the [[OCA|Russian Metropolia]] in the 1890s. This second return to Orthodoxy by Carpatho-Russians in America, under the spiritual leadership of Fr. (later [[Metropolitan]]) [[Orestes (Chornock) of Agathoniketa|Orestes Chornock]], was directed toward Constantinople rather than to the Russian presence in America primarily because of concerns about [[Russification]] which had occurred with the previous move, and the status of the Russian church under Soviet rule. As such, rather than being absorbed into the body of the Russian churches in America, the ACROD was permitted by Constantinople to keep its distinctive practices while removing Latinizations such as the [[Filioque]] from the recitation of the [[Nicene Creed]].
==The ACROD today==
*Canadian - Rev. Fr. Maxym Lysack
*Chicago - Rev. Fr. Samuel Sherry
*Florida - Very Rev. Fr. Michael ShusterMiklos*Johnstown - Very Rev. FrProtopresbyter Frank P. David CochranMiloro
*Mid-Atlantic - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Robert Rebeck
*New England - Very Rev. Fr. Luke Mihaly
*New Jersey - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Michael Rosco
*New York - Very Rev. Fr. John J. BeskidProtopresbyter Michael Rosco*Pittsburgh - Very Rev. Protopresbyter John P. GidoRobert Prepelka*Pocono - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Lawrence BarrigerMark Leasure
*Southern Tier - Very Rev. Protopresbyter James Dutko
*Tri-State - Very Rev. Fr. James A. Gleason, JrMichael C.Kabel*Washington, D.C. - Very Rev. Fr. Miles ZdinakProtopresbyter Michael Rosco
*Youngstown - Very Rev. Fr. Kenneth Bachofsky
The diocese is also a member of [[SCOBA]].
==Ruling Bishops==
* [[Orestes (Chornock) of Agathonikeia]] (1938–1977)
* [[John (Martin) of Nyssa]] (1977–1984)
* [[Nicholas (Smisko) of Amissos]] (1985–2011)
* [[Gregory (Tatsis) of Nyssa]] (2012–present)
== External links ==
*[http://www.acrod.org/ Official Website of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese]
*[http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-bodypgdefault.aspx?eccpageIDID=41&IndexViewpagetypeID=toc 9&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 Eastern Christian Churches: American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church] by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar
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