History In the late nineteenth century , many Rusyns emigrated to North America and founded the Greek-Catholic parishes. However, they encountered difficulties to maintain their specificity in the local Roman Catholic Church, particularly as regards the married priests. This led some to withdraw from the Catholic Church to move to the Orthodox Church.
The church was founded in 1938 when a group of 37 Greek-Catholic parishes Carpatho-Ruthenian, under the leadership of Father Oreste Chornock, were received into the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The previous year, the group had officially renounced the Union with Rome, largely to protest against the tendencies of the Catholic Church romanization. Among the sticking points included the papal decree Cum data fuer of 1929 prohibiting for the Greek-Catholic ordination of married men and immigration of married priests to serve parishes in the United States.
Organization
The church has about 75 parishes in the United States and Canada. More than half of them in Pennsylvania.
It has a seminar to train its clergy located in Johnstown.
The former monastery of diocesan Tuxedo Park (NY) closed in the 1990s.
Relations with other Churches
Although the diocese is attached directly to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, he is under the supervision of the spiritual primacy of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
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