The Holy Orthodox Church in North America (HOCNA) is an autocephalous, locally-governed Eparchial Synod consisting of the Dioceses in North America and Abroad.

Our Synod traces its origins and received its hierarchical consecrations from the True Orthodox Church of Greece (under the Presidency of Archbishop Auxentius, of blessed memory), which in turn had received the Apostolic succession from the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia under the Presidency of Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of New York, the New Confessor (ROCOR).

Following in the footsteps of the Holy Fathers, our Church holds to the Patristic Liturgical Calendar and opposes the Pan-Heresy of Ecumenism.

The Holy Synod

+ His Eminence GREGORY, Metropolitan of Boston, President of the Holy Synod, Locum Tenens of the See of Toronto

+ His Eminence IGNATIUS, Metropolitan of Seattle

+ His Eminence PAUL, Metropolitan of Nairobi On behalf of the Church in East Africa

+ His Eminence, SPYRIDON, Bishop of Saint Petersburg, On behalf of the Church in Russia

+ His Grace JOHN, Suffragan Bishop of Woodside



The Holy Orthodox Church in North America is in full Eucharistic communion with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad under the Omophorion of:

+ His Grace IRINEY, Bishop of Verny and Semirechie.

For more detailed information, as well as for the archive of our documents and publications, please visit www.homb.org .