The Holy Orthodox Church in North America or HOCNA (also known as "the Panteleimonites") is a Orthodox Christian church located primarily in the United States and Canada, with additional communities in Europe, Africa and South America. Originally part of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), it was incorporated in 1987 from the community of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline, Massachusetts (which had left ROCOR in 1986 and a group of former ROCOR clergy, initially under the authority of the Greek Old Calendarists. Its current Primate is Ephraim, Metropolitan of Boston.
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