A former Episcopalian and convert to Orthodoxy, Metropolitan Jonah was installed as the new leader of the Orthodox Church in America in December 2008 .Metropolitan Jonah had been the bishop of the Fort Worth diocese and is the first head of the OCA to have converted to the faith. Metropolitan Jonah will oversee a church of approximately 200,000 members with congregations across North America.
The Orthodox Church in America began as a mission of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 19th Century. The mission to North America received generous financial support from Tsar Nicolas II until his murder and that of eleven family members and servants on 17 July 1918 on the order of the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet.
Metropolitan Jonah has said, "I desire that our church should remain a part of the single Orthodox pleroma, but, that it would also acquire some distinctive American features over time."
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