Preface to the History of the ROCIADisunity of Eastern Orthodoxy in AmericaTragically, the Orthodox Church in the New World has suffered, since
1927, from chronic disunity. It is the policy of the Russian Orthodox
Church in America to not participate in the internecine squabbling among
Orthodox jurisdictions, in the disputes which are usually, disingenuously
couched in such terms as 'canonicity', 'authenticity' and 'official
recognition'. Such fraternal disputes are scandalous to the people of God
and destructive to Holy Church, and we simply, yet firmly, refuse to join
into the fray. Metropolitan SYMEON First Hierarch, ROCIA, 2008 |
Roswell, New Mexico
U.S.A.
Metropolitan Symeon (Ioannovskij), Our Archbishop