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Metr. John was succeeded in 1971 by [[Mystyslav (Skrypnyk) of Kiev|Mystyslav (Skrypnyk)]], who served as head of the diocese until 1990, when he was elected as patriarch of the UAOC, being succeeded by Bp. [[Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos|Vsevolod (Maidansky)]]. (In the same year, the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada]] was received into the Ecumenical Patriarchate.) Mystyslav died only three years after his election as patriarch, followed by enormous division in Ukraine. Ukrainian Orthodoxy in America, however, generally stayed out of the disputes there.
On [[March 12]], 1995, all the Ukrainian hierarchs outside of Ukraine which had not yet done so were received into the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The following year, in November, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA (formerly under the UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America (under Constantinople since 1937) were finally united, with Vsevelod Vsevolod becoming one of the new jurisdiction's diocesan bishops.
The same year as the unity was achieved, a [[tomos]] was issued by a metropolitan of the UAOC establishing a parish in Cleveland, Ohio, and ordaining a local priest with the title of Metropolitan [[Stephan (Petrovich) of Toronto|Stephan (Petrovich)]]. Additionally, in 1998 four parishes of the united jurisdiction (whose priests had been [[suspension|suspended]]) left Constantinople to become part of another unrecognized Ukrainian Orthodox group, the [[Church of Ukraine (Kiev Patriarchate)|Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate]] (UOC-KP).
