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Meanwhile, the Moscow Patriarchate's Western rite withered and came to an end, but Bishop Jean's church continued to thrive, though after St. John's death in 1966, they were again isolated from the other churches. Bishop Jean died in 1970, and then in 1972 the [[Church of Romania]] took the Eglise Orthodoxe de France under its [[omophorion]]. Gilles Bertrand-Hardy was consecrated as Bishop [[Germain (Bertrand-Hardy) of Saint-Denis|Germain de Saint-Denis]], and the restored Gallican rite became the regular liturgy used in the many small French Orthodox [[parish]]es established throughout France. In 1993, after a lengthy conflict with the Romanian holy synod regarding alleged canonical irregularities, and following the canonical deposition of the Bishop Germain, confirmed in 2001 by the Secretary of the Holy Synod of Romanian Church, but still contested by ECOF, without any appeal of this decision, the church again found itself in isolation from the other Orthodox churches by the withdrawal of Romania's protection for the church. The Romanian patriarchate established a [[deanery]] under Bishop Germain's brother Archpriest Gregoire to minister to those parishes formed by the priests and laity that chose to stay with Romania.

Some years later, after the scandal caused by the revelation inside the Church of the marriage of Bishop Germain in 1995 with a divorced woman (which was is supposed to have been legally annulled), some priests and parishes led by Archpriest Jean-Pierre Pahud left the French Church and formed the ''Union des Associations Cultuelles Orthodoxes de Rite Occidental'' (UACORO) (the Union of Western Rite Orthodox Worship Associations). Many of these have subsequently been received on an individual basis into the Church of Serbia.