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Document is an official translation from Synod HQ in 1978 of official Synodal position. Anecdotal "evidence" unneccesary. Undo Revision.
'''The Old Calendarists.''' By 1969, ROCOR intervened in the Old Calendarist situation by recognizing the consecrations on her part of six Bishops for the [[Old_Calendarists#Divisions_within_the_Florinites|Florinites]]. In 1984, fifteen years later, the Primate of the Greek Old Calendarists at the time, Archbishop Auxentios of Athens, established a provincial Missionary Synod for Western Europe and the Americas (known as the "Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas", lated the Milan Synod) which eventually absorbed the various American communities using a Western rite in 1997. In Europe, the Synod uses the Ambrosian rite annualy and Mozarabic rites in certain Spanish chapels.
'''ROCOR.''' In Europe, the ROCOR's role in the formation of the Church of France is undisputed, as the French Church, part of the Western Rite Mission of the Moscow Patriarchate, was given a Bishop by St John of Shanghai and San Francisco. However, the Church of France's parishes (in France) are on the New Calendar. The ROCOR also received the petition of Mount Royal Monastery of New York under Abbot Augustine (Whitfield) into the ROCOR in 1975. In 1979However, HTM-Boston (which later left the ROCOR) purported that the Synod had made a decision against officially rejected the use of Western rite. Howeverrites on Sept 5/18, Western rite 1978 in ROCOR continued unopposed in Eastern America until Archbishop Hilarion (Karpral) its Synodal declarations of that year. The use of Washington the Western rites gradually gained reacceptance, and Florida was transferred to Sydney, Australia in 1995. In 1993, Christminster monastery was also blessed to open by Archbishop Hilarion (Kapral), who later became the First-Hierarch of the ROCOR. In 1997, Saint Petroc monastery was received in the archdiocese of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand and charged with mission work. In 1979 a document was circulated claiming to be a Synodal decision against the Western rite. However, Western rite continued within ROCOR including Eastern America up through the time that Archbishop Hilarion (Kapral) was the bishop of Washington and Florida. According to ROCOR historians, members of the Synod at the time did not remember the matter being discussed and it is widely believed the document originated from Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Boston (which later left ROCOR.) The document, no matter its origin, was never acted upon.
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