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Since 1997, the Milan Synod includes a number of [[Western Rite]] communities, mainly in the United States, who worship according to a highly unusual translation of the Sarum Liturgy universally panned by those familiar with the legitimate article. These communities originated within the ''episcopoi vagante''/Old Catholic movement. The head of St. Hilarion's Monastery in Austin, Texas, began his career with the [http://www.liberalcatholic.org Liberal Catholic Church,]a Theosophist organization, and he personally ordained the head of the [http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/general/monasteryicons.aspx Gnostic Orthodox Church, which runs Monastery Icons,]although the "swami" ordinand claimed he did not need ordained because he had received that sacrament in a former life. The head of St. Hilarion's monastery in Austin later joined a ''vagante'' organization falsely dubbing itself the "Synod of Orthodox Bishops of the Western Rite" (and [http://phonebook.superpages.com/negocios/C-Iglesias-Ortodoxas+Orientales/S-NJ/T-/PA-1/PB-16 advertizing itself as though it were Orthodox).]These parishes applied to [http://www.rocor.org.au Archbishop HILARION] to be accepted within [http://www.rocor.org ROCOR,], but His Grace denied their request when the group refused reordination. The Milan Synod then accepted the "Synod," presumably without imposing any further ordination that which they received from their Theosophist forebears.