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The '''Church of Greece''' is one of the [[autocephaly|autocephalous]] churches of the Orthodox Christian communion whose territory consists of the whole of Greece except for those parts which belong to the [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]], such as the Dodecanese and [[Archdiocese of Crete|Crete]]. Though bishops of the "new lands" (those that were liberated from 1912 and afterwards) are members of the [[Holy Synod]] of the Church of Greece, they refer to the Patriarch of Constantinople in the divine services. The church is led by the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
Until his death in 2008, the primate of the Church of Greece was [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens|Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece]] since 1998. On [[February 7]], 2008, Metropolitan [[Ieronymos II (Liapis) of Athens|Ieronymos (Liapis) of Thebes and Levadeia]] was elected to succeed Christodoulos.
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