Bishop Valerian D. Trifa: „The Orthodox Church Today 1964“

(Continued from last issue)
In 1963, Metropolitan Andrei rec­ognized the canonical jurisdiction of the Bulgarian Patriarchate in Sofia. This act was not accepted by some of the parishes, in particular those of Macedo-Bulgarian origin. Under the leadership of Archimandrite Ianceff, the Macedonian parishes declared themselves separated from the Bul­garian Diocese.
The See of Metropolitan Andrei is in New York City.
There are about 5,000 Bulgarian Orthodox in the United States and Canada.
The Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church
The name Carpatho-Russian is ap­plied to the population living in the Eastern part of Czechoslovakia.
Originally, the Carpatho-Russians were Orthodox, but, under political pressure, they became Uniates accept­ing the Roman Catholic Byzantine Rite and the supreme authority of the Pope of Rome.
The Carpatho-Russian immigrants to the United States did not feel at home under the American Roman Catholic jurisdiction and started a movement of returning to Orthodoxy. >>>>>Bishop Valerian D. Trifa>>>>>