[2] The starting point in the history of this jurisdiction was the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Boston, founded in 1961 by monk Panteleimon (Metropoulos) and accepted into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) in 1965.
Bishop Jerome Shaw remembered[3] In 1965, a Greek-American monastery in Brookline, MA was received into the Church Abroad, with its founder, the priestmonk Panteleimon (Metropoulos<...>).
That priestmonk, through followers whom he had led into his "stricter" teachings, began to undermine both the traditional practices of the Russian Church, and then the hierarchy itself.
[4] When the investigation began, new witnesses and even victims from among the former inhabitants appeared, claiming about the heavy atmosphere of unnatural vice that reigned in the monastery.
[6] The brethren of the monastery declared themselves as innocent victims of malicious slander, and Archimandrite Panteleimon and his supporters justified their conflict with the new leadership of the ROCOR, and then their departure from it, by dogmatic differences with the Synod of the ROCOR, including accusing the latter of having "irreversibly deviated into ecumenism";[7] they considered contacts with the Serbian and Jerusalem Patriarchates as "ecumenism".
In addition, the "French Mission" ("The Orthodox Church of France") headed by Archimandrite Ambrose (Fontrier) withdrew from the jurisdiction of the ROCOR.