Ecumenical Patriarchate in America

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.

While reliable statistic are always 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 roughly 750 parishes (about 725) and monasteries (about 25). It includes fourteen defined dioceses, governed by nineteen diocesan and auxiliary bishops. Constantinople thus by far is the largest representation of Orthodoxy in America, including roughly twice as many Orthodox Christians under its omophorion than all other jurisdictions combined.

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

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 in the United States 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 abbot and debuty 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.[2] (The list at the Greek Archdiocese website also includes a parish in New Jersey.[3]) 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.

The monastery and its metochia continue to follow the Julian Calendar.

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

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

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

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

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