On January 26, 2025, Bishop John of Caracas and South America, who oversees the Old Believer parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), announced the addition of new communities.

According to OrthoChristian.com, for decades, the only canonical Old Believer parish within ROCOR was the Nativity of Christ parish in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1983, its priest, Pimen Simon, was ordained as the first Old Believer cleric within ROCOR. In 2023, another Old Believer parish, the Ascension Orthodox Church in Monett, Missouri, joined ROCOR. Now, new communities in Alaska and Oregon have also been received into the Church.

Father Nicholas (Alaska) and Father Nikita (Oregon), formerly belonging to the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, were received into ROCOR as laymen and are undergoing ordination within the canonical Church. On January 28, Father Nicholas was ordained a deacon, and on January 30, he was ordained a priest. Father Nikita was ordained a deacon, and his priestly ordination is scheduled for the upcoming Sunday.

The Nativity of Christ parish was founded in 1916 by Russian Old Believer immigrants who had arrived in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their ancestors, persecuted for their faith, migrated from the Pskov and Novgorod provinces to Poland before eventually emigrating to America.

In 1919, the first church dedicated to the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos was built in Erie. In the following decades, Old Believers preserved their traditions, but after World War II, assimilation began: the Russian language was gradually replaced by English, and traditional beards and attire started to disappear.

Some Old Believer communities relocated to Detroit and New Jersey and later to Oregon and Alaska. In 1968, the town of Nikolaevsk was founded in Alaska, becoming the center of the largest Old Believer community in the United States. However, the majority of local Old Believers remain outside communion with the Orthodox Church.

The Nativity of Christ parish in Erie, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, has a congregation of 175–200 members. The church operates a Sunday school where children study the Law of God and traditional Znamenny chant. Services are conducted in both English and Church Slavonic.