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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:150%;" | ROCOR and OCA Timeline
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| '''1917'''
|Bolshevik Revolution breaks out in Russia
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| '''1919'''
|Southern Church Council meets in Stavropol at which Higher Church Administration was formed in Southern Russia.
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| '''1920'''
|St. [[Tikhon of Moscow]] issues ''[[ukase]]'' #362; first session of the Higher Church Administration outside borders of Russia.
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| '''1921'''
|ROCOR bishops meet in synod in Karlovtsy, Serbia.
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| '''1924'''
|4th All-American Sobor of the Metropolia votes to establish "temporary self-government," breaking administrative ties with Moscow.
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| '''1926'''
|Metropolitan Platon of the Metropolia breaks ties with the ROCOR synod.
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| '''1927'''
|ROCOR synod sends epistle to American parishes suspending Platon and his clergy.
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| '''1935'''
|"Temporary Regulations of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad" signed by Karlovtsy Synod, including Platon, thus renewing relations.
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| '''1937'''
|6th All-American Sobor of the Metropolia declares itself to report to ROCOR in matters of faith.
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| '''1946'''
|7th All-American Sobor of the Metropolia breaks all ties with the ROCOR, splitting American Russian Orthodoxy in two.
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| '''1970'''
|Metropolia receives autocephaly from Moscow and returns Japanese possessions to its control, becoming known as the OCA.
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| '''1971'''
|ROCOR denounces Moscow's grant of autocephaly; OCA receives rebel ROCOR parish in Australia.
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| '''1982'''
|Calendar schism in OCA diocese of E. Pennsylvania; ROCOR receives multiple parishes in the area.
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| '''2001'''
|Election of Metropolitan Laurus as First Hierarch of ROCOR.
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'''The ROCOR and the OCA''' have a complicated history of cooperation, rivalry, and sometimes outright hostility. These two [[jurisdiction]]s, the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] (ROCOR) and the [[Orthodox Church in America]] (OCA), both have their origins in the [[Church of Russia]] (a.k.a. the ''Moscow Patriarchate'' or ''MP''), and their histories as clearly identifiable entities both stem from the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in the early 20th century.