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The Kursk-Root icon traveled a third time to Ukraine and Russia in September 2012 with Fr. Nicholas, visiting the Dioceses of Samara, Kursk and Perm; and in December to Seattle and Hawaii of the [[Diocese of San Francisco and Western America (ROCOR)|Diocese of San Francisco and Western America]]. He was awarded the [[kamilavka]] and gold [[pectoral cross]] on January 6, 2013, by the Synod of Bishops, and a few months latedaccompanied the Kursk-Root Icon to the Canadian Diocese. In November 2013, was a delegate accompanying the Icon to Japan and to the Primorsk Metropoliate of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2013, he accompanied Archbishop [[Kyrill (Dmitrieff) of San Francisco]] and the Kursk Root Icon to the Diocese of Montreal and Canada, the [[Church of Japan]], and the Metropolia of Primorsk<ref>[http://www.vladivostok.eparhia.ru/society/publikazii/?ID=12409 "Люди открыли свои души..."]</ref>.

After the retirement of Bishop [[Jerome (Shaw) of Manhattan|Jermome]] from the See of Manhattan on July 10, 2013, the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR deliberated during a meeting that December and on the eve of the feast of the Kursk-Root icon, decided upon the candidacy of Fr. Nicholas Olhovsky to become the next [[vicar bishop]] of Manhattan. On March 19, 2014, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church confirmed this election in Journal No. 10:

:''“HEARD: “The report of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, President of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, interceding for the confirmation of the election of Priest Nicholas Olhovsky, a clergyman of the Eastern American Diocese, to the cathedra of Bishop of Manhattan, Vicar of the Eastern America Diocese.