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In January of the following year, Platon convened another sobor in America, which labelled the ROCOR as "uncanonical." One Metropolia bishop dissented, Apollinary (Koshevoi), and he was subsequently expelled from the Metropolia. The ROCOR synod then deposed Platon as primate of the Metropolia and appointed Apollinary in his place, who had some success, persuading 62 parishes to accept his authority in the six years of his reign.

In 1927, Platon, free of the strictures of both the Moscow Patriarchate and the ROCOR synod, attempted to form an [[autocephaly|autocephalous]] Orthodox Church in North America by blessing the creation of the [[American Orthodox Catholic Church]], whose constitution gave it authority over all Orthodox Christians living on the continent and was led by [[Aftimios Ofiesh]], Archbishop of Brooklyn. The new [[jurisdiction]] collapsed on itself in a matter of six or seven years, however, as Platon soon withdrew his support in the wake of internal pressures and conflicts as well as external pressures from the [[Episcopal Church U.S.A.]], which felt that the new church constituted competition with it (the Episcopalians regarded themselves as the "senior Orthodox church" in the US). Additionally, when Aftimios chose to contract a civil marriage, all legitimacy which the new jurisdiction retained was erased in the eyes of mainstream Orthodoxy.