Nicholas (Iuhos)

Nicholas (born Nicolae Iuhoş^[1]) was a priest and archimandrite in the Church of Romania, Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and Orthodox Church in America.

He left World Orthodoxy for the Holy Orthodox Church in North America, later joining the True Russian Orthodox Church (Damascene), and Russian True-Orthodox Church (Vyacheslav) where he was the RTOC-V Bishop of Cincinnati and America, and Secretary of their Synod of Bishops. Later, he joined the Orthodox Metropolia of Old Calendar Christians in Italy but immediately received autonomy and formed the True Orthodox Church in America.

Biography

Nicolae Iuhoş was February 9 1952 in village Șilindru, Bihor, Romania.

He married and in 1973 he was Ordained to the priesthood in the Church of Romania. Served in Oradea, Romania.

In 1981 he Complete the Orthodox Institute in Sibiu, Romania.

In 1982 he elevated to the rank of archpriest^[2].

In 1984 during his pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land he refused to return to homeland. He moved to Germany where he transferred to ROCOR and served in the parishes of the ROCOR German diocese.

In 1987 he moved to Australia to serve as second priest at the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, Dandenong (Victoria, Australia) to care for Romanian-speaking faithful.

In 1991 he appointed rector of Ss. Peter and Paul Church, Perth (Western Australia).

In 1991 he Became a monk, elevated to Igumen.

In 1992 he transferred to serve in Jerusalem as acting Superior of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem (ROCOR).

May 4, 1993 at the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Metropolitan Vitaly (Ustinov) nominated him to the bishopric, but аrchbishops Mark (Arndt) and Laurus (Škurla) voted against^[3].

In November 1993, passed into jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church in America, where he was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite.

Since 1999 he served as rector of the Church of St. John the Baptist in the city of Passaic, New Jersey^[4].

At March 19-22, 2001 Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America appointed him as Rector of the Great Martyr Catherine in Moscow and the OCA’s Representation Church to the Church of Russia; effective since June 1^[5].

After nearly year of service in Moscow had to resign due to health problems^[6] and moved to the United StatesБ. In 2005 he established Holy Cross Monastery in Niagara Falls, New York, under the Orthodox Church in America^[2].

In 2009 he left World Orthodoxy and joined the Holy Orthodox Church in North America.

February 22 2010: Left HOCNA and joined the "Russian Orthodox Church" ("Российская православная церковь" not to be confused with Moscow Patriarchate) under "Metropolitan" Damascene (Balabanov) of Moscow^[7] (former priest of ROCOR in Russia).

June 12 2010 archimandrite Nicholas was consecrated as Bishop of Cincinnati by Metropolitan Damascene of Moscow, Archbishop John of Zaporizhzya and Little Rus', and Bishop Andrian of Chisinau and Moldova as head of the North American Vicariate of the Damascene's "Russian Orthodox Church"^[8].

April 26 2012 Bishop Nicholas is accepted into the Russian True-Orthodox Church under Metropolitan Alexey (Bondarenko) of Moscow.

October 14, 2013 joined the Orthodox Metropolia of Old Calendar Christians in Italy, led by Onufrie (Pop) (an ethnic Romanian), who immediately gave autonomy to Nicholas Iuhoş, who became metropolitan of "True Orthodox Church in America" (Adevaratei Biserici Ortodoxe din America). Based in Cincinatti, Met. Nicholas acquired an old school and established the Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery<^[9]> (TOCA) in Addyston, Ohio.