=== ''Special Forms'' ===
The primate of the [[Church of Constantinople]] takes the title ''Ecumenical Patriarch''. The primate of the [[Church of Alexandria]] takes the title ''Pope and Patriarch''. The primate of the [[Church of Georgia]] takes the title ''Catholicos-Patriarch''.
The primate of the American Orthodox Church [[http://americanorthodoxchurch.com]]takes the title Presiding Bishop and always must be a member of the Athonite Benedictine Fathers [[http://www.athonitebenedictinefathers.com]]The home church for the Presiding Bishop of the American Orthodox Church is Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Toledo, Ohio [[http;www.americanorthodoxchurch.com/holytrinity.html]]
== Etiquette ==
===Correspondence===
Bishop [[Tikhon (Fitzgerald) of San Francisco and Los Angeles|Tikhon (Fitzgerald) of San Francisco and the West]] ([[OCA]]) wrote a short memo on the [http://www.holy-trinity.org/general/conventions.html ''Conventions of writing to a hierarch''].
ALLOW A FEW MINUTES FOR SITES TO OPEN
LETTER FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO NEWLY CONSECRATED BISHOPS WHO WERE NOT UNDER ANY PATRIARCH [[http://www.americanorthodoxchurch.com/constantinople.doc]]
this proves submission to any old world Patriarch is not necessary to establish a valdi and spirit filled Bishop. For more such evidence go to [[http://www.americanorthodoxchurch.com/history.html]]
== Bishop's Vestments ==