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The '''Diocese of Washington and New York''' is was the reemergence with a new name of the original [[Diocese of New York and New Jersey (OCA)|Diocese of New York and New Jersey]] after it had been split to form the [[Diocese of Washington (OCA)|Diocese of Washington]] as a separate diocese. The Diocese of Washington and New York was formed when the two [[diocese]]s were re-merged in 2005, and was dissolved in 2009.
== History ==
The formation of the Diocese of Washington included the areas of the Capital proper (District of Columbia), Maryland, southern Delaware, and northern Virginia. The [[St. Nicholas Cathedral (Washington, D.C.)|St. Nicholas Cathedral]] in Washington was the see for the Metropolitan. At its inception the new diocese included only a few parishes, those in the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas. During the following two decades after formation of the diocese a number of new parishes formed as the population of the diocese increased.
In 2005, after the 2002 election of [[Herman (Swaiko) of Washington and New York|Metr. Herman]] as the ruling hierarch of the OCA and with the retirement of Abp. Peter, the Holy Synod of the OCA remerged the dioceses of New York and New Jersey and Washington as the Diocese of Washington and New York. St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington was designated the see of the ruling hierarch.
With the retirement of Metropolitan Herman, in September of 2008, the ''[[locum tenens]]'' of the diocese became Archbishop [[Dmitri (Royster) of Dallas|Dmitri (Royster)]], assisted by Archbishop [[Seraphim (Storheim) of Ottawa|Seraphim (Storheim)]] as administrator. In November of 2008, His Grace, Bishop [[Jonah (Paffhausen) of Washington and New York|Jonah of Fort Worth]] was elected ''Archbishop of Washington and New York and Metropolitan of All America and Canada'' at the [[All-American_Council#Fifteenth_All-American_Council|15th All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America]].
In 2009, the Holy Synod of the OCA re-established the seperate dioceses of Washington and of New York and New Jersey, restoring the diocesan make-up as it was from 1981-2005.
===Diocese===
The diocese includes included four [[Deanery|deaneries]] with [[Parish|parishes]] in the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia as of in 2008:
*Washington DC Deanery
==External link==
*[http://dcnyoca.org/ Official Website for the OCA's Diocese of Washington and New York]
*[http://www.oca.org/DIRlists.parish.diocese.asp?diocese=OCA-WA&x=31&y=15&SID=9&CLASS=P&TYPE=DIOCESE Diocese of Washington and New York] (Parishes listed on [[OCA]] website)