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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]]. It's Its full name is the '''American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Dioceseof the U.S.A.'''.

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 fears of concerns about [[Russification]] which had occurred with the previous move. 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, but while removing things Latinizations such as the [[Filioque]] from the recitation of the [[Nicene Creed]].

Besides its 75 parishes, the ACROD has one [[seminary]] located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, [[Christ the Saviour Seminary (Johnstown, Pennsylvania)|Christ the Saviour Seminary]]. The bulk of the diocese's parishes are in the United States, with one in Canada, and nearly half are located in Pennsylvania. There was formerly a diocesan [[monastery]], the [[Monastery of the Annunciation (Tuxedo Park, New York)|Monastery of the Annunciation]] in Tuxedo Park, New York, but it was closed in the early 1990s.Another monastery at Beallsville, Maryland, known as [http://omna.malf.net/hcnews.htm Monastery of the Holy Cross], dissolved in 1997 when the abbot went over to the Ukrainian Catholic Church. The diocese has 14 deaneries: *Canadian - Rev. Fr. Maxym Lysack*Chicago - Rev. Fr. Samuel Sherry*Florida - Very Rev. Fr. Michael Miklos*Johnstown - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Frank P. Miloro*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. Protopresbyter Michael Rosco*Pittsburgh - Very Rev. Robert Prepelka*Pocono - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Mark Leasure*Southern Tier - Very Rev. Protopresbyter James Dutko*Tri-State - Very Rev. Fr. Michael C. Kabel*Washington, D.C. - Very Rev. Protopresbyter Michael Rosco*Youngstown - Very Rev. Fr. Kenneth Bachofsky