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Most of the arguments detailed below are shared in the responses of all the churches and of the other essays included in the volume, but the Churches of Constantinople and Greece give the most detailed comments (pp. 30-44 and 53-67, respectively).
Shortly after the official correspondences of the hierarchs to one another, Prof. [[Panagiotis N. Trempelas]], a former member of the faculty at the School of Theology at the University of Athens, published ''The Autocephaly of the Metropolia in America'', which gave more detailed historical and canonical arguments againts the grant of autocephaly.
Some of the above correspondence is also included in a volume published by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, ''The Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in America'' (originally published in ''St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly''), accompanied by articles by [[John Erickson]] and Fr. [[Alexander Schmemann]] defending the autocephaly.
==Arguments in favor of OCA autocephaly==
*Moscow's act is an attempt to extend Soviet influence into America.
==SourceSources==*''Autocephaly: The Orthodox Church in America''. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1971.
*''Russian Autocephaly and Orthodoxy in America: An Appraisal with Decisions and Formal Opinions''. New York: The Orthodox Observer Press, 1972.
*Trempelas, Panagiotis. ''The Autocephaly of the Metropolia in America''. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross School of Theology Press, 1974.
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