OCA's Western Diocese is pretty "Russian" and has lots of Old Calendar parishes.

Don't you mean "Carpatho-Russian"?????

Слава Ісусу Христy!

In Canada, in Toronto there is one old calendar Greek Orthodox parish on the old Calendar, St Irene Chrysovalantou just off the Danforth near Pape , at 66 Gough Avenue
Toronto, ON M4K 3N8

But I was told that in the near future all Greek Churches would be on the modified calendar.

There are advantages in celebrating Rizdvo and Paskha at a different time than the secular world

Z Bohom
Nycholaij

Toronto certainly has more than one Greek Orthodox parish using the traditional calendar. Unfortunately, divisions within the traditionalist community can give the impression that the "other" parishes do not exist.

Fr. Serge

I was actually thinking of the "Russian Missionary Deanery" in San Francisco.

And, as far as I understand, OCA has been pretty much Russified, with the ACROD taking in those interested in maintaining their Carpatho-Russian or Rusyn identity.

But then you are writing from the Philipines aren't you.
If you visit some of the historical small parishes in PA you will find remnents of Carpatho-Rusyn customs.

There is a strong Old Calendar Greek Orthodox community in the Toronto area including Southern Ontario. Many of the laypeople have their origins in the islands un the EP which like Mt. Athos continued to use the Old Calendar.

Thanks for the correction, then. Of course, I was basing myself on what I've been reading.

Please note, though, that my original comment was about OCADOW, not necessarily about OCA as a whole.

By the way, I've noticed that when some people want to correct me, they refer to my nationality. Does the fact that I'm Filipino mean that I am automatically disqualified from making comments based on what I've read and researched? Are we not all, in one way or another, in the same situation? We cannot always visit every place about which we'd like to know something, but in this day and age of immense and quick information at our fingertips, it is certainly permissible to amass information and make educated assumptions on these. We live in an age where a newspaper in Nairobi can comment on a crisis in France, where a Korean newspaper can comment on the cultural scene in New York, where a blogger in Kuala Lumpur can pontificate about what Rome says, and where a periodical in New Zealand can editorialize on the ecclesiastical rumbles in Ukraine.

Mind you, I read a lot of nonsense on my country and about Asia as a whole from American-based writers, but I will never dream of criticizing them on the basis of where they live or what their nationality is. Yes, distance from the place about which I am commenting may increase the chances that I am in error, but it is not a proof that I am indeed wrong.

I find this to be an ugly tactic and I hope people here stop using it against me. If you find that I'm saying something wrong, please leave my nationality out of it.

Dear Caloy:

Please do not take offense!

Perhaps it was plain inadvertence on the poster's part in referring to our beloved country as the origin of your posts, without intending to denigrate OUR nationality. That would be a veiled form of racism totally unacceptable in an intelligent discourse.

I, in particular, value your contributions to these discussions as they add another perspective, as interesting as yours, to the issues at hand.

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

Amado

Actually, the western diocese of the OCA is the most Russified in all the OCA. Many churches there are almost up to ROCOR standards. If one was accustomed to the OCA praxis, of say, the Lehigh Valley, one might assume that one were in a ROCOR Church as opposed to an OCA Church if attending services in some of the parishes of the OCA Diocese of the West.

Alexandr

Does anyone have updates on the status of the JP parishes in America? The last I heard is that they are not willing to join the GOA.