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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, large numbers of Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian [[Uniate]] immigrants came to the United States, with many of the latter group converting to Orthodoxy after their immigration. Around 1915, a number of parishes organized themselves into an independent Ukrainian Orthodox jurisdiction in North America, finding guidance in a visiting [[Church of Antioch|Antiochian]] hierarch, Metr. [[Germanos (Shehadi) of Zahle]], whose leadership was sought out particularly by Ukrainians who had been under the [[OCA|Russian Metropolia]], but regarded its hierarch of the time, [[Alexander (Nemolovsky) of Brussels|Alexander (Nemolovsky)]], as being an "anti-Ukrainian" [[Russification|Russifier]], who did not even regard Ukrainians as a separate ethnicity, but rather that "the Ukrainians are not a separate people nor a nationbut only one of the Russian political parties."[http://www.archdiocese.ca/moreUOCCformation.pdf]