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Forgive me, I forgot to say "the entire New England Deanery of ROCOR" instead of "the entire ROCOR Deanery"
The Russian Church Abroad (ROCOR) enjoyed relative stability until after the death of Metropolitan Philaret of New York (+1985) and is currently in the process of uniting with Moscow. Since the death of Metropolitan Philaret (regarded as a [[saint]] by many Old Calendarists), three major groupings of True Orthodox Churches can be categorized.
'''[[Holy Orthodox Church in North America|The Holy Orthodox Church in North America]]''': In 1986, after the monks of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline, MA were accused of moral crimes and called to spiritual court. The entire New England Deanery of ROCOR Deanery, with the exception of one priest, had repeatedly asked for a canonical investigation of the trustworthiness of the persons making the moral accusations for a period of 11 months.[[http://www.homb.org/archives/Clergy%20Letter,%20Sept.%2016-29,%201986.pdf]] These same clergy had also expressed concerns over violations of the Anathema Against Ecumenism which all the bishops of ROCOR had signed in 1983.[[http://www.homb.org/archives/November%208.pdf]] Several days before the monks were called to spiritual court [[http://www.homb.org/archives/Dec.%209,%201986.pdf]] they left the ROCOR [[http://www.homb.org/archives/Departure%20from%20ROCOR%20Letter.pdf]]
and were recieved by Metopolitan Akakios and Metropolitan Gabriel, two Bishops who had not attended the Synod meetings of Archbishop Auxentios because of various administrative problems. The monks had lost confidence that the bishops would be unbiased since they were recieving testimony from witnesses that cannot make accusations against a clergyman according to the Sacred Canons. (see above) Several weeks later with approximately one-thirteeth of the North American parishes of the ROCOR, following Holy Transfiguration Monastery's example, also went under Metropolitans Akakios and Gabriel.
