St. Tikhon's involvement in the Western Rite has been one more enduring. While he was head of the Russian mission in America, some Episcopalians were interested in the possibility of joining Orthodoxy while retaining Anglican liturgics. St. Tikhon, sending the 1892 Book of Common Prayer, enquired as to the viability of such an idea; in 1904, the Holy Synod admitted its possibility, including many notes on how the BCP could be used in an Orthodox manner. St. Tikhon did not receive any Episcopalians who used revised Anglican forms, but it lay the groundwork for the reception and liturgics of the [[Western Rite Vicariate]]. [http://occidentalis.blogspot.com/2004/09/western-rite-history-part-five.html]
====France====[[Image:Kovalevsky-Maximovitch.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Bp. [[Jean-Nectaire (Kovalevsky) of Saint-Denis]] and St. [[John Maximovitch]] in 1964]]:''Main article: [[Orthodox Church of France]]''In 1937, the [[Church of Russia]] received There has been a small group under Louis-Charles (Irénée) Winnaert (1880-1937), under the name ''l'Eglise Orthodoxe Occidentale'' ("Western Orthodox Church"). Winnaert's work was continued, with occaisional conflict, by [[Jean-Nectaire (Kovalevsky) of Saint-Denis|Evgraph Kovalevsky]] (1905-1970) and [[Denis (Chambault)|Lucien Chambault]], the latter of which oversaw a small Orthodox Benedictine community in the rue d'Alleray in Paris. After 1946, Kovalevsky developed the significant [[Orthodox Church of France|Eglise Orthodoxe de France]] to restore the [[Gallican Rite|Gallican usage]] based on the letters of St. [[Germanus of Paris|Germanus]], a 6th century [[bishop]] of Paris. Archimandrite Alexis (van der Mensbrugghe) was also associated with them, desiring the restoration of the ancient Roman rite, replacing medieval accretions with Gallican and Byzantine interpolations. Eventually Fr. Alexis was consecrated a bishop of the [[Church of Russia]] episcopacy in 1960, continuing his Western Rite work under the auspices of the Moscow Patriarchate. After some years of isolation, Kovalevsky's group came under the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] between 1959 and 1966, with Kovalevsky consecrated in 1964 as Bishop [[Jean-Nectaire (Kovalevsky) of Saint-Denis|Jean-Nectaire de Saint-Denis]] receiving considerable encouragement from St. [[John Maximovitch]] (ROCOR's representative in Western Europe at the time). St. John's repose in 1966 was a serious blow to these French Orthodox Christians, who had a holy patron in St. John. While Moscow's Western Rite mission withered and ended, Bishop Jean's church continued to thrive; however, after St. John's repose, without canonical protection. Bishop Jean reposed movement in 1970, and then in 1972 re-entered the Church through the [[Church of Romania]]. Gilles Bertrand-Hardy was then consecrated as Bishop [[Germain (Bertrand-Hardy) of Saint-Denis|Germain de Saint-DenisFrance]], and the restored Gallican rite became the regular liturgy used in the many small French Orthodox [[parish]]es established throughout France. In 1994, after lengthy conflict with the Romanian Holy Synod regarding various canonical irregularities, Bishop Germain was deposed and the Eglise again found itself in canonical limbo with the deposition of Bishop Germain. The Romanian patriarchate established a [[deanery]] under Bishop Germain's brother Archpriest [[Gregoire Bertrand-Hardy]] to minister to those parishes which chose to stay with the Romanian Patriarchate. Ten parishes that neither remained with Germain nor Romania formed largest remaining group thereof being the ''Union des Associations Cultuelles Orthodoxes de Rite Occidental'' (UACORO - the Union of Western Rite Orthodox Worship Associations), and began negotiations in 2004 with the [[Church of Serbia]] to be taken under its omophorion, with the intention of the UACORO entering the Diocese of France and Western Europe.
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