Macedonians have been immigrating to North America for over a century, but distinctly Macedonian Orthodox parishes were not founded outside the jurisdiction of the Church of Bulgaria until the 1960s, when the establishment in Yugoslavia of the Macedonian Orthodox Church prompted Macedonians in the United States and Canada to begin organizing parishes under the jurisdiction of the newly independent church. The Diocese of America and Canada was founded at the third All-Macedonian Council held in OhridOchrid, Yugoslavia, in 1967, after which the Macedonian Orthodox [[Holy Synod]] elected Metropolitan Cyril of Toronto as ruling [[bishop|hierarch]] of the new diocese.<ref group="note">In 1967 the Church in Macedonia unilaterally declared its [[autocephaly]] from the [[Church of Serbia|Serbian Orthodox Church]], a move which is not recognised by any of the churches of the Eastern Orthodox Communion, and since then, the Macedonian Orthodox Church is not in communion with any Orthodox Church.</ref>

After 1987 the Diocese passed back and forth between various administrators and the oversight of Archbishop Stephen of OhridOchrid, first hierarch of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. In April 2006 Bishop Methodius of Velika was appointed diocesan administrator, later in the year being elected Metropolitan of America and Canada and enthroned on [[September 2]], 2006 in Toronto's Cathedral of St. [[Clement of OhridOchrid]].