The Ecumenical Patriarchate in America comprises five separate jurisdictions, along with a number of stavropegial institutions, and includes roughly two-thirds of all 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. Christ the Saviour Seminary in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is the seminary for the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (ACROD), a self-governing diocese within the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. ... St. ... Saint Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary is an Orthodox Christian seminary located in Crestwood, New York in the United States. ... The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) is an Orthodox Christian missions organization based in the USA and supported by all the jurisdictions of the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America (SCOBA). ... The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) is an Eastern Orthodox organization designed to help cooperation among the canonical Orthodox Christian jurisdictions to be found in the Americas. ... The Evangelical Orthodox Church is an Eastern Orthodox Christian movement with its origins in Evangelical Protestantism, particularly in the Campus Crusade for Christ student missionary organization, that came to embrace an Eastern tradition of Christianity. ... This article is on the institution of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. ... In law, jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning law and dicere meaning to speak) is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... The Archdiocese of America is a jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Patriarch of Constantinople. ...

While reliable statistics are difficult to come by, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has roughly 500,000 adherents (or up to 2 million, by some estimates) in the United States[1] worshiping at about 750 parishes (about 725) and monasteries (about 25). It includes 14 defined dioceses (a number of which overlap, since multiple jurisdictions are represented), governed by 19 diocesan and auxiliary bishops. Thus Constantinople is by far the largest numerical representation of Orthodoxy in America, including roughly twice as many Orthodox Christians under its omophorion than all other jurisdictions combined and about two-fifths of all Orthodox bishops in America. Of the nine bishops who are members of SCOBA, four represent Constantinopolitan jurisdictions.[2] A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... Monastery of St. ... Bishop Richard Pates, current auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the Titular Bishop of Suacia. ... This article is about a title or office in religious bodies. ... In the Orthodox liturgical tradition, the omophorion is one of the bishops vestments and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority. ... The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) is an Eastern Orthodox organization designed to help cooperation among the several Eastern Orthodox Christian jurisdictions to be found in the Americas. ...

Jurisdictions

• Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America
• American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
• Belarusian Council of Orthodox Churches in North America
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA

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Stavropegial institutions

The Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Orthodox Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou in Astoria, New York, founded in 1972, had historically been part of the Old Calendarist movement (specifically the "Kiousis Synod") but in 1998 came under the omophorion of the Ecumenical Patriarch. Though not formally organized as a diocese, the monastery and its ten metochia—two monasteries and eight parishes—essentially function as a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States (also including one mission in the Central American nation of Belize). The Old calendarists are those Eastern Orthodox Churches that continue to use the Julian calendar, namely the Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches and some others. ... In the Orthodox liturgical tradition, the omophorion is one of the bishops vestments and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority. ... The Patriarch of Constantinople is the Ecumenical Patriarch, the first among equals in the Eastern Orthodox Communion. ... Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... Monastery of St. ... In Eastern Orthodoxy, a metochion (Russian: podvorie) is an ecclesiastical embassy church, usually from one autocephalous or autonomous church to another. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ...

The abbot and 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. Besides an additional 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.[3] (The list at the Greek Archdiocese website also includes a parish in New Jersey.[4]) 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. Abbots coat of arms The word abbot, meaning father, has been used as a Christian clerical title in various, mainly monastic, meanings. ... This article is about a title or office in religious bodies. ... In hierarchical Christian churches, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop (then more precisely called Metropolitan archbishop) of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of an old Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital. ... Ordination is the process in which clergy become authorized by their religious denomination and/or seminary to perform religious rituals and ceremonies. ...

The monastery and its metochia are stavropegial, directly under the Ecumenical Patriarch, and until recently continued to follow the Julian Calendar, but have been on the Revised Julian Calendar for some years. The Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC by Julius Caesar and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). ... The Revised Julian calendar is a calendar that was considered for adoption by the Eastern Orthodox churches at a synod in Istanbul in May 1923. ...

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

Hierarchs

• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • Abp. Demetrios (Trakatellis) of America
  • Metr. Iakovos (Garmatis) of Chicago
  • Metr. Maximos (Aghiorgoussis) of Pittsburgh
  • Metr. Methodios (Tournas) of Boston
  • Metr. Isaiah (Chronopoulos) of Denver
  • Metr. Alexios (Panagiotopoulos) of Atlanta
  • Metr. Nicholas (Pissare) of Detroit
  • Metr. Evangelos (Kourounis) of New Jersey
  • Metr. Gerasimos (Michaleas) of San Francisco
  • Bp. Dimitrios (Couchell) of Xanthos
  • Bp. Savas (Zembillas) of Troas
  • Bp. Andonios (Paropoulos) of Phasiane
  • Bp. Demetrios (Kantzavelos) of Mokissos

• Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA
  • Metr. Constantine (Bahan) of Irinoupolis
  • Abp. Antony (Scherba) of Hierapolis
  • Abp. Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos

• American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
  • Metr. Nicholas (Smisko) of Amissos

• Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America
  • Bp. Ilia (Katre) of Philomelion

• Stavropegial institutions
  • Metr. Paisios (Loulourgas) of Tyana
  • Bp. Vikentios (Malamatenios) of Apameia

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