OCA’s claim to autocephaly as a unifying jurisdiction for the American Orthodox stems from the original mission and ethos of the Russian Metropolia, representing the missionary ethos of the Russian Church. Historically, the Russian Church has always had a very strong missionary mindset, conveniently coinciding but going down this particular rabbit hole, I would just remind us that the Orthodox Church in America recounts its history from the 1794 mission to Alaska and the ensuing Russian evangelization of the Alaskan natives…