Jurisdiction

Orthodox Church in America

Autocephalous

Status
Autocephalous Church
Primate
Metropolitan Tikhon
See
Washington
Territory
United States, Canada and Mexico
Calendar
Revised Julian (New) calendar
Recognition
Recognized by some of the local Churches
Recognized as autocephalous by Moscow (which granted the tomos in 1970), Georgia, Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Lands and Slovakia. The other Churches are in full communion with it without recognizing its autocephaly.
Website
oca.org

The heir of the Russian mission to Alaska (1794), which received autocephaly from Moscow in 1970. Its dioceses include the Romanian Episcopate, the Albanian Archdiocese, the Bulgarian Diocese and the Archdiocese of Canada.