ACROD
Coordinates: 40°20′59″N 78°56′47″W / 40.34972°N 78.94639°W
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese or American Carpatho-Ruthenian Orthodox Diocese is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with 78 parishes in the United States and Canada. Though the diocese is directly responsible to the Patriarchate, it is under the spiritual supervision of the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
The diocese was led by the late Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko of Amissos (1936-2011). The current leader is the Bishop of Nyssa, Gregory Tatsis, who was consecrated on November 27, 2012.
At the end of the nineteenth century, many Ruthenians (Rusyns) immigrated to North America and established Eastern Catholic parishes. The Roman Catholic hierarchs, however, belonged to the Latin Church and did not readily welcome the Ruthenians. Differences between the Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Rite and the bishops of the predominant Latin Rite Catholics, especially regarding a married priesthood and the form of the Divine Liturgy or Mass, led some of them out of Roman Catholicism and into the Orthodox Church. A particularly strident opponent of non-Latin practices was John Ireland the Archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1888-1918, who refused to permit Ruthenian clergy to function in his archdiocese.
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