 In 1986, Holy Transfiguration Monastery of Boston severed its ties with ROCOR and placed itself under Metropolitans Gabriel of the Cyclades and Akakios of Diavleia of the Greek Old Calendarists.The following year in 1987, a group of approximately 30 clergy who had left ROCOR founded HOCNA together with the monastic community of Holy Transfiguration Monastery.In subsequent years (1988, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2006, 2012, and 2013), seven HOCNA priests were consecrated as bishops.