[2] Byelorussian priest Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski was consecrated as bishop of Laconia, New Hampshire and the states of New England within the American Orthodox Catholic Church.
[2] Following this excommunication, the American World Patriarchates expanded throughout Canada, Hungary, West Germany, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, El Salvador, Nigeria, the West Indies, Norway, Sweden, Formosa, and Ukraine.
[4] In 1978, after the death of Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski, the leadership of the American World Patriarchates was succeeded by his brother, Emigidius J.
In 1997, the American World Patriarchates reported 19,457 members, 17 congregations, and 54 priests in the United States.
[3] In 2015, Emigidius J. Ryzy died,[5] and one group within the American World Patriarchates claimed that his designated successor refused to administrate over the church.