Complex sentence: This move marked the second group of Carpatho-Russian parishes to turn to Orthodoxy, the first having been led by St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre into the jurisdiction of the Russian Metropolia in the 1890s.
Split into simpler sentences: This move marked the second group of Carpatho-Russian parishes to turn to Orthodoxy. The first had been led by St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre into the jurisdiction of the Russian Metropolia in the 1890s.