The glorification of Father Herman was performed on August 9, 1970, at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak, Alaska by the OCA with parallel services at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady, Joy of all who Sorrow in San Francisco by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( ROCOR ).

The full restoration of communion with the Moscow Patriarchate was celebrated by a Divine Liturgy at which the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexius II and the First Hierarch of ROCOR, Metropolitan Laurus, concelebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first time in history.

These parishes were permitted to practice the New Calendar, even though the rest of ROCOR was on the Old Calendar.

Immediately following the Russian Revolution the parish was under the jurisdiction of what would become known as the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( ROCOR ).

In March 1964, Rose opened an Orthodox bookstore next to the ROCOR cathedral on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, which was under construction at the time.

ROCOR was formed as a jurisdiction of Eastern Orthodoxy as a response against the policy of Bolsheviks with respect to religion in the Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and separated from the Russian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in 1927 after an imprisoned metropolitan Sergius ( Stragorodsky ) pledged the Church ’ s qualified loyalty to the Bolshevik state.

This led to a three-way conflict in the United States among the Exarchate, ROCOR ( sometimes known as " the Synod " in this period ), and the Living Church, which asserted that it was the legitimate ( Soviet-government-recognized ) owner of all Eastern Orthodox properties in the USA.

John of Shanghai and San Francisco | Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco was a noted Eastern Orthodox Church | Eastern Orthodox Asceticism | ascetic and hierarch of the ROCOR in the mid-20th century.

After the end of World War II, the Patriarchate of Moscow broached the possibility of reunification between Moscow and ROCOR, presumably at the behest of the Soviet government, which had adopted a more conciliatory attitude towards religion during the war and was presumably trying to capitalize on its wartime alliances to win a more respectable position internationally.

This wasn't deemed possible at that time by the ROCOR, given that the USSR was still a communist state.

When Israel became a state in 1948, all of the property under the control of the ROCOR within its borders was handed over to the Soviet dominated ROC in appreciation for Moscow's support of the Jewish state ( this support was short-lived ).

There was a general belief in ROCOR that the Soviet government was manipulating the Moscow Patriarchate to one extent or another, and that under such circumstances administrative ties were impossible.

Advocates of the more extreme view of the Moscow Patriarchate became increasingly strident in the 1970s, at a time when ROCOR was increasingly isolating itself from much of the rest of the Orthodox Church due to concerns over the direction of Orthodox involvement in the Ecumenical Movement.

Historically, ROCOR has always affirmed that it was an inseparable part of the Russian Church, and that its autonomous status was only temporary, based upon Ukaz 362, until such time as the domination of the Soviet government over the affairs of the Church should cease:

" The fact that the catacomb Church had essentially ceased to exist was de facto recognized when, as Communism was about to finally collapse in Russia, ROCOR began to establish " Free Russian " parishes in Russia, and to consecrate bishops to oversee such parishes, and never recognized any alleged Catacomb bishop as having a legitimate episcopacy.

This event was later hailed as an important step by Patriarch Alexy II who said that it showed the ROCOR that " not a fighter against God, but an Orthodox Christian is at the country's helm.

It was paid for by ROCOR members from around the world.

The matter eventually went to the courts and it was ruled that that Sever had violated the bylaws and the church was restored to ROCOR.

Saint John ( Maximovitch ) of Shanghai and San Francisco also John ( Maximovitch ) the Wonderworker ( 1896 – 1966 ) was a noted Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ( ROCOR ) who was active in the mid-20th century.

Solovyov's teachings on Sophia have been deemed a heresy by ROCOR and as unsound and unorthodox by the Patriarchate of Moscow.

However, some traditionalist ROCOR criticised the Sourozh diocese for endorsing ' an Anglican form of Orthodoxy ', led by ' a small and ageing clique of intellectuals, very much part of one particular, upper middle-class, Western cultural elitist group, one elderly generation '.

It has been alleged by British ROCOR clergy that the diocese of Sourozh failed to expand to meet the spiritual needs of newly-arrived Orthodox Christians from Russia who lived in areas of the United Kingdom in which the diocese did not have parishes or communities.

The relationship between members of the ROCOR and the Nazis during World War II ( when Germany turned against the USSR ) has long been an issue addressed by both the Church and its critics.

" Upon arrival Arafat and the patriarch were refused entry by the ROCOR clergy, who held that Alexy had no legitimate authority.

Two weeks afterwards police officers of the Palestinian Authority arrived and by " assaulting and cursing priests and nuns " they managed to evict the ROCOR clergy and then turned over the property to the ROC.

" The ROCOR also accused the leadership of the ROC as being submissive to the Russian government and were alarmed by their ties with other denominations of Christianity, especially Catholicism.

Committees were set up by both the Patriarchate and ROCOR to begin dialogue towards rapprochement.

ROCOR currently has 593 parishes and 51 monasteries for men and women in 43 countries throughout the world, served by 672 clergy.

As the only Russian hierarch in China who refused to submit to the authority of the Soviet-dominated Russian Orthodox Church, he was elevated to archbishop by the Holy Synod of ROCOR in 1946.

Due in part to the re-establishment of official ties between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate, the Orthodox Church of Greece ( Holy Synod in Resistance ) has broken ecclesial communion with ROCOR, but the converse has not happened.

The ROC should also not be confused with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( also known as the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, or ROCOR ), headquartered in New York.

The two Churches reconciled on May 17, 2007 ; the ROCOR is now a self-governing part of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Old Calendarists went their own way without further official recognition from the broader Orthodox communion until 1960, when the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( ROCOR ) consecrated new Bishops for one of the two major Old Calendarist jurisdictions.

However, no official intercommunion exists between the Greek Old Calendarists and ROCOR at the present day, due to the recent reunification of ROCOR and the Russian Orthodox Church ( Moscow Patriarchate ) except with that part of ROCOR which did not unite with Moscow.

For example, a group of parishes today known as the Bulgarian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America, were until 1976 a part of Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ( ROCOR ).

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (, ), also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, or ROCOR, is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On September 13, 1922, Russian Orthodox hierarchs in Serbia met in the town of Sremski Karlovci and established a Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, the foundation of ROCOR.

Despite distancing itself from both the Bolsheviks and Sergius, in 1927 ROCOR declared " The part of the Russian Church that finds itself abroad considers itself an inseparable, spiritually united branch of the Great Russian Church.

It doesn't separate itself from its Mother Church and doesn't consider itself autocephalous ", indicating that ROCOR considered itself to speak for all of the Russian Orthodox outside Russia.

Since the end of the Soviet Union, ROCOR has maintained its administrative independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.

However, these statements only declared that ROCOR did not recognize the Patriarchs of Moscow who were elected after 1927 as being the legitimate primates of the Russian Church — they did not declare that the Bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate were illegitimate bishops, or without grace.