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St. Tikhon's approach of establishing a separate "diocese" for each cultural group differed from that used by the Roman Catholic Church of melding their cultural parishes into a common organization of dioceses.[[http://www.diocese-sacramento.org/ethnic_ministries/ethnic_ministries.html]]
The concept was also intended to consecrate [[bishop]]s for other cultural groups including the Serbians, Albanians, Greeks, and others. As a result of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, and the ecclesiastical disorganization that followed, the concept was not fulfilled. However, after the [[Metropolia]], which formed from the Russian mission in North America after World War I, was granted [[autocephaly]] by the [[Church of Russia]] in 1970, a number of [[parish]]es in North America that broke from the administration of Mother Churches under Communist control were accepted as ''ethnic dioceses'' by the autocephalous [[Orthodox Church of in America]]. These included [[Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America (OCA)|Romanian]], [[Bulgarian Diocese (OCA)|Bulgarian]], and [[Albanian Archdiocese (OCA)|Albanian]] parishes.
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