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The members of SCOBA are the archbishops, metropolitan bishops, and bishops of the Orthodox Churches in North and South America that are in communion with the ancient Greek Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey), Antioch (now in Damascus, Syria), Alexandria (Egypt), Jerusalem and the Moscow Patriarchate and those that are in communion with them. In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... 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. ... Two bishops assist at the Exhumation of Saint Hubert, who was a bishop too, at the église Saint-Pierre in Liège. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... A patriarchate is the office or jurisdiction of a patriarch. ... The Orthodox Church of Constantinople is one of the fifteen autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. ... The Antiochian Orthodox Church is one of the five churches that composed the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church before the Great Schism, and today is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. ... The Orthodox Church of Alexandria is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. ... The Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, properly called the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, is regarded by Orthodox Christians as the mother church of all of Christendom, because it was in Jerusalem that the Church was established on the day of Pentecost with the descent of the Holy Spirit on the...

Jurisdictions

• Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America (a diocese under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, not to be confused with the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America, which is an Archdiocese within the OCA)
• Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (an autonomous archdiocese of the Antiochian Patriarchate)
• Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church Diocese of America, Canada and Australia (a diocese of the Bulgarian Patriarchate)
• Carpatho Russian Orthodox Diocese in the USA (a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (an archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)
• Orthodox Church in America (the only autocephalous Orthodox church in North America)
• Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America and Canada (an archdiocese of the Romanian Patriarchate)
• Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada (an archdiocese of the Serbian Patriarchate)
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)

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Agencies

The main agencies of SCOBA along with their dates of establishment are

• The Orthodox Christian Education Commission (OCEC), 1960 [1]
• The Eastern Orthodox Committee on Scouting (EOCS), 1960 [2]
• The Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) 1965, 2001 [3]
• International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), 1992
• The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), 1994 [4]
• The Orthodox Christian Network (OCN), 2003 [5]

See also

• List of Orthodox jurisdictions in North America
• Archbishop of America

Affiliated with SCOBA Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America [1] American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of American and Canada Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox... The Archdiocese of America, better known as the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, is a jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. ...

External links

• Criticism of SCOBA
• Another criticism of SCOBA
• SCOBA's website
• SCOBA members
• SCOBA on the website of the Orthodox Church in America
• Jurisdictions in America affiliated with the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the website of Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• Albanian Diocese affiliated with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, at OrthodoxWiki.