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This is a very biased, almost bigoted, article that needs to be immediately removed or severely edited to correct it. It is amazing that there is no clear separate mention to the Hellenic (Greek) Orthodox Church the greatest of all orthodox churches in North America, not even a picture of one of the hundreds of Greek Orthodox churches in the United States. Shame also on the writer of this article for the propaganda efforts against the legitimate Greek protests about FYROM (former yugoslavian republic of Macedonia) to usurp the historic and cultural heritage of the Greek Makedonians and specifically the kingdom of Makedon and Alexander the Great. If you were half decent you would have referred to the so called "Macedonian Church" in Ajax, Ontario, as FYROM Church. Which is how all international fora have recognized it (NATO, EU, etc) until the naming dispute is settled (e.g. the day FYROM acknowledge the fact that ancient Macedonia was in and will always remain a part of the Hellenic (Greek) History. Shame on you all who have contributed to this article so far! Submitted by XwpisONOMA(at)gMail(dot)com.— Precedingunsigned comment added by2601:246:4E01:2DD3:6D19:ED38:1BE4:2F6E (talk)05:20, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the paragraph in question, from the sectionEarly Russian Orthodox presence the Americas:

It was moved again in the last part of the same century, this time to New York. This transfer coincided with a great movement of Eastern Catholics to the Eastern Orthodox Church in the eastern United States. This movement, which increased the numbers of Eastern Orthodox Christians in America, resulted from a conflict between John Ireland, the politically powerful Roman Catholic Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Alexis Toth, an influential Ruthenian Catholic priest. Archbishop Ireland's refusal to accept Fr. Toth's credentials as a priest induced Fr. Toth to join the Eastern Orthodox Church, and further resulted in the conversion of tens of thousands of other Uniate Catholics in North America to the Eastern Orthodox Church, under his guidance and inspiration. For this reason, Ireland is sometimes ironically remembered as the "Father of the Orthodox Church in America." These Uniates were received into Eastern Orthodoxy into the existing North American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. At the same time large numbers of Greeks and other Eastern Orthodox Christians were also immigrating to America. At this time all Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America were united under the omophorion (Church authority and protection) of the Patriarch of Moscow, through the Russian Church's North American diocese. The unity was not merely theoretical, but was a reality, since there was then no other diocese on the continent. Under the aegis of this diocese, which at the turn of the 20th century was ruled by Bishop (and future Patriarch) Tikhon, Eastern Orthodox Christians of various ethnic backgrounds were ministered to, both non-Russian and Russian; a Syro-Arab mission was established in the episcopal leadership of Saint Raphael of Brooklyn, who was the first Eastern Orthodox bishop to be consecrated in America.

Could anyone please tell me if this needs splitting, and if so, where to split it?--Thylacine24 (talk)21:44, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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