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Many Years to Metropolitan HILARION (Kapral), till now Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand as well as of some of the Orthodox in Indonesia and South Korea, just confirmed by the Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow as First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), and Ruling Hierarch of its diocese of the eastern United States!
Metr. HILARION is a Canadian, the son of Ukrainian immigrants / refugees to Alberta province, and a Baby Boomer, born in 1948. He succeeds Metr. LAURUS (Skurla), who reposed in March from the flu on the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy at age 80.
Hilarion was elected by the Council of Bishops of ROCOR, the 11 of them, meeting in New York City Monday afternoon, subject to the Moscow Synod’s confirmation earlier today. He is expected to be enthroned by his brother Bishops this Sunday in NY. Since the reunion with the MP a year ago, ROCOR appears to function as an autonomous ecclesiastical province of the Patriarchate, whose approval is needed – and expected – for its Bishops’ elections; its Bishops are supposed to take their turns serving on the Patriarchal Synod.
BTW, ROCOR’s official name in Russian (or is it Church Slavonic?) sounds less redundant: “Russian Orthodox Church Zagranitsei,” which last term I believe means simply “Beyond the Borders” or words to that effect. They’re often called “the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad,” or ROCA for short. (You don’t think Jay-Z is a highly-traditional Orthodox Christian, do you?!!!)
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