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Holy Transfiguration Monastery and ROCOR
===Holy Transfiguration Monastery and ROCOR===
In the 1960s, ROCOR took under its care [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)]] (today the principal [[monastery]] of [[HOCNA]]) after the latter had broken communion from the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] following sexual abuse scandals regarding the monastery's leadershipdue to its ecumenical leanings. At some point later, they gradually assumed responsibility for much of ROCOR's external communications and publications. (The monks of Holy Transfiguration were English-speaking and the ROCOR bishops in America mainly were not.)
It is believed by many that The monastery represented the allegedly sectarian spirit traditional views of ROCOR came into its flowering during this time and under the influence of this monasteryOrthodoxy, which frequently misrepresented the official policies and views of the Synod of Bishopswere not always embraced by ROCOR. In 1983, ROCOR anathamatized the early 1980s the hierarchs heresy of the Synod began ecumenism. Due to correct issues of faith and censor the narrow-minded and incorrect views of the followers of ecclesiology, Holy Transfiguration Monastery. Subsequently this group broke communion with ROCOR (again regarding allegations of sexual abuse by the monastery's leadership), styling themselves the [[HOCNA|Holy Orthodox Church in North America]] (HOCNA). They became affiliated with the [[True Orthodox Church of Greece]], a Greek Old Calendarist group which broke from the [[Church of Greece]]. According to Fr. Alexey Young (author of ''The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia: A History and Chronology''), after the association repose of ROCOR and Holy Transfiguration Monastery resulted in deep damage to ROCORMetropolitan Philaret.
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