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The diocese was founded in 1938 when a group of 37 Carpatho-Russian [[Uniate]] parishes were received into the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, having the year before officially renounced the Unia with Rome, primarily in protest over [[Latinization]]s occurring in their church life, particularly a 1929 papal decree mandating that Eastern Rite [[clergy]] in the US were to be celibate.
This move marked the second group of Carpatho-Russian parishes to return to Orthodoxy, the first having been led by St. [[Alexis of Wilkes-Barre]] into the jurisdiction of the [[OCA|Russian Metropolia]] in the 1890s. This second return to Orthodoxy by Carpatho-Russians in America, under the spiritual leadership of Fr. (later [[Metropolitan]]) [[Orestes (Chornock) of Agathoniketa|Orestes Chornock]], was directed toward Constantinople rather than to the Russian presence in America primarily because of concerns about [[Russification]] which had occurred with the previous move. As such, rather than being absorbed into the body of the Russian churches in America, the ACROD was permitted by Constantinople to keep its distinctive practices, but while removing things Latinizations such as the [[Filioque]] from the recitation of the [[Nicene Creed]].
==The ACROD today==
