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Marie Moffitt
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The difference is that in the US there was one recognized Orthodox authority - the Church of Russia - officially serving all Orthodox Christians until the Russian Revolution. The Church of Russia provided priests for all Orthodox Christians, and tried to provide for various linguistic communities, but those priests all belonged to the same jurisdiction and answered to the same bishops.
In the US, each ethnicity did NOT have its own churches and bishops \"right from the start.\"
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