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== Background ==
New York City’s first presence of Orthodoxy can is traced to 1870, when Farther Nicholas Bjerring, an American [[convert]], was directed by Metropolitan Isidore of St. Petersburg to open the first Orthodox Church in New York City. Services for the congregation were held in a chapel within Fr. Nicholas’s house. In 1885 the Russian government withdrew its support due to the small membership.
The oldest Diocesan parish sill functioning is SS Peter and Paul Church is Buffalo, NY (April, 1894) Among its early missionary priests were Fr. John Nedzelnitsky, the Dean of Eastern States, and Fr. [[John Kochurov]] (canonized 1994 by the [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox Church]]).
===End of the Diocese ===
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== Early Institutions ==
Other institutions established in the New York-New Jersey area of this time to meet both the religious and social/economic needs of the immigrants were: