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:After 1917, they first joined together with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. However, eventually after much hesitation, a small number of Russian bishops in North America cut themselves off from the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and formed an independent but uncanonical group, called the Metropolia. In 1970 this group was given autocephaly (independence) by the still enslaved Church in Russia.[http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/ruedaru.htm]

Certainly, the ROCOR was not one of those who (especially after 1946) "tacitly accepted" the Metropolia's "irregular status." That the Metropolia (led for a time by Metropolitan [[Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of New York]]) was part of the ROCOR was attested to by St. [[John Maximovitch]]: