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The fourteenth All-American Sobor was held on [[October 19]]-[[October 22|22]], 1970 at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|St. Tikhon's Monastery]] and [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)|Seminary]] in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. It was this sobor that received and assimilated the [[Tomos]] of [[autocephaly]], granted by the [[Church of Russia]] on [[April 10]], 1970.
With the grant of autocephaly, it became the custom to refer to councils of this jurisdiction as ''councils'' rather than ''sobors'', and thus the Fourteenth All-American Sobor came to be known also as the '''First [[All-American Council]]'''.
Having received autocephaly, the sobor/council noted the need to define anew the statutory form and administrative structure of the church. To accomplish this the council resolved to convene the next council in 1971 for the sole purpose of adopting a new statute.