The Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada consists of four dioceses of the Church of Serbia (Serbian Patriarchate) that are governed by the Bishop of America and Canada Longin (New Gracanica Metropolitanate).
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The Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America and Canada is an overseas archdiocese of the Church of Romania.
The Archdiocese came in existence in a restructuring of the original Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America formed in the 1930s.
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The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Russian: Русская Православная Церковь Заграницей), also called ROCOR is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The ROCOR is also referred to as the Karlovtsy Synod (from its seminal formations in Serbia) or simply the Synod, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, or ROCA
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The Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is the name of the group of parishes of the Russian mission in America that recognize the canonical authority of the Church of Russia. They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Metropolia in 1970.
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The Russian Orthodox Church in America (ROCIA) is the direct continuation of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church chartered in February 1927 by Metropolitan Platon with the blessing of Moscow Patriarch Tikhon.
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