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*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 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 [[Sunday of Orthodoxy]] service in New York; first Bulgarian parish in Madison, Illinois.
*1908 [[Church of Russia|Russia]] offers [[{Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]] to take Greek parishes in US under Russian omophorion, but the Constantinople instead gives temporary care of American Greek parishes to [[Church of Greece|Greece]]; first Albanian parish in Boston.
*1909 Bp. [[Innocent (Pustinsky) of Sitka|Innocent (Pustinsky)]] transferred to Russia, succeeded by [[Alexander (Nemolovsky) of the Aleutians|Alexander (Nemolovsky)]] as Bishop of Alaska; death of Fr. [[Alexis of Wilkes-Barre|Alexis Toth]].
*1911 Minneapolis seminary transferred to Tenafly, New Jersey.
