Ecumenical Patriarchate in America

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The

Eastern Orthodox Christians in America. The archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, by far the largest of Constantinopolitan jurisdictions in the US, is considered the local primate and may convene a Holy Synod
of all the hierarchs of the Ecumenical throne in America.

Reliable statistics are difficult to find, but the Ecumenical Patriarchate has roughly 500,000 adherents (or up to 2 million, by some estimates) in the United States

SCOBA, four represent Constantinopolitan jurisdictions.[2]

Jurisdictions

  1. Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America
  2. American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
  3. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada
  4. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  5. Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico
  6. Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
  7. Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
  8. Vicariate for Palestinian-Jordanian Communities in the USA[3]
  9. Vicariate for the Communities of Slavic Tradition in the USA[3]

Stavropegial institutions

The

metochia—two monasteries and eight parishes
—essentially function as a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States (also including one mission in Belize).

The abbot and the deputy abbot of the monastery are both bishops, governing not only the monastery but also the metochia, most of which are in the northeastern United States. Apart from a second monastery in Astoria, New York, and one in North Fort Myers, Florida, there are four parishes in New York, one in Delaware, one in Florida, one in Illinois, and one in Belize.[1] (The list at the Greek Archdiocese website also includes a parish in New Jersey.[2] Archived 2007-09-20 at the Wayback Machine) The current abbot is Metropolitan Paisios (Loulourgas) of Tyana, who led the monastery and its metochia into the Ecumenical Patriarchate along with the deputy abbot, Bishop Vikentios (Malamatenios) of Apameia. Both Paisios and Vikentios were ordained upon entry into the patriarchate, as their previous ordinations in the Old Calendarist movement were regarded as invalid.

The monastery and its metochia are

Revised Julian Calendar
for some years.

The Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute in Berkeley, California, is also a stavropegial institution of the patriarchate.

References

  1. ^ "A quick question about Eastern Orthodox churches in the USA". hirr.hartsem.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  2. ^ "SCOBA HIERARCHS". 2007-05-06. Archived from the original on 2007-05-06. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  3. ^ a b "Orthodox Jurisdictions in America". goarch.org.


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