The town is also the home, as of June 2006, of the St. John of San Francisco Monastery, an Orthodox Christian men's monastery belonging to the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
Father John Veniaminov of Irkutsk volunteered for the journey, and left Russia in May 1823.
Zimmerman studied under Rev. Richard Osacky, who was later consecrated bishop and known as Archbishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest, Orthodox Church in America.
The Orthodox Church in America, which was formerly a missionary diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, traces its history back to the early Russian missionaries in 'Russian America'.
They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970.
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The Orthodox Church in America Parishes in Australia refers to an administrative district of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) located within two states in Australia – New South Wales and Queensland.
He served as a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and as a delegate from the Orthodox Church in America to the Assemblies of WCC in Uppsala, Sweden and Nairobi, Kenya.
A desire for Apostolic Succession led most members of the EOC to join the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in 1987 after first investigating the Episcopal Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Archdiocese, and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
The publication of the Apostolic letter Ea Semper, which dealt with the Eastern Rite Catholics in the United States, led to a number of defections to the Russian Orthodox Church in America.