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Its current primate is Metropolitan [[Philip (Saliba) of New York|Philip (Saliba)]], who has six other diocesan [[bishop]]s assisting him in caring for the nine [[diocese]]s of the growing Archdiocese, which is the third largest Orthodox Christian [[jurisdiction]] in North America, having over 200 parishes and missions and, and estimates of the number of faithful range from about 8584,000 [http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/quick_question17.html] to 500380,000 [http://www.electronicchurch.org/2002/NCC_members.htm] depending on the counting method being used.[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/quick_question17.html] The number of new Antiochian parishes in the decade between 1990 and 2000 rose by approximately 33%, and the primary membership growth in the Archdiocese has been from American converts.[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/tab2.pdf] It also includes the [[Western Rite Vicariate]], a group of about 20 [[parish]]es including roughly 10,000 faithful who worship according to the [[Western Rite]].