"In America the Canons of the Church Don't Matter, Right?"

An excellent article on the need for a stricter following of the canons in American Orthodoxy from the perspective of a priest of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Corbishop Kuriakos Thottupuram, can be found here.

Note: In West Syrian custom (and perhaps East Syrian/Assyrian as well?) corbishop is the highest rank to which a priest can be elevated, not the lowest rank of the hierarchy as in Byzantine practice.