Holy Orthodox Church in North America
True Orthodox organisation
The Holy Orthodox Church in North America (HOCNA) is a True Orthodox denomination located primarily in the United States and Canada, with additional communities in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Georgia. In 2010, the HOCNA had 2,212 congregants in 34 churches in the United States.
History
1924 - Church of Greece adopts the New Calendar.
1935 - Three Metropolitans led by Chrysostom of Florina, renounce the calendar innovation and become the hierarchs of the Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece.
1955 - Metropolitan Chrysostom of Florina reposes, leaving no successor.
1960 - Archbishop Seraphim of Chicago and Bishop Theophilus of Detroit, both of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR), secretly consecrate Archimandrite Akakios Pappas as Bishop of Talantion for the flock of the late Metropolitan Chrysostom.
1962 - Archbishop Leonty of Chile and Peru (ROCOR) and Bishop Akakios of Talantion consecrate three more bishops for the Church in Greece, including Bishop Auxentios of Gardikion.
1963 - Bishop Akakios of Talantion reposes. Bishop Auxentios of Gardikion becomes the Archbishop of Athens of the Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece.
1969 - Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad under Saint Philaret Metropolitan of New York, recognizes the episcopal consecrations of the Synod of Archbishop Auxentios of Athens which had been enacted in 1960 without the knowledge of the Synod of ROCOR.
1979-1984 - Series of schisms occur in the True Orthodox Church of Greece with groups of bishops uncanonically separating from Archbishop Auxentios, as a result of which emerge the synods of Cyprian Koutsoumbas and of Chrysostomos Kiousis.
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