Holy Orthodox Church in North America

About HOCNA

The Holy Orthodox Church in North America or HOCNA, whose ruling Archbishop was Archbisop Auxentios of Greece, now falls under the spiritual guidance of His Eminence's Metroplitan Makarios of Toronto, Metroplitan Ephraim of Boston and Metroplian Moses of Seattle. After breaking from the Greek Archdiocese and being received into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (aka ROCOR), it broke from the latter in 1986 after HOCNA felt ROCOR was following the "Ecumenical Movement". Today, HOCNA consists of many monastic communities(most notably Holy Transfiguration Monastery [www.thehtm.org] in Brookline, MA, USA), missions and parishes throughout the United States, Canada, Greece, Russia, Georgia, Africa and South America. HOCNA regards itself as being the last true remnant and defender of the True Orthodox Church.