Church of Greece

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Church of Greece
Founder(s) Apostles
Autocephaly/Autonomy declared 1833
Autocephaly/Autonomy recognized 1850 by Constantinople
Current primate Ieronymos (Liapis) (archbishop-elect)
Headquarters Athens, Greece
Primary territory Greece
Possessions abroad
Liturgical language(s) Greek
Musical tradition Byzantine Chant / Choral
Calendar Revised Julian
Population estimate 10,000,000 [1]
Official website Church of Greece

The Church of Greece is one of the 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 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, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece since 1998. On February 7, 2008, Metropolitan Ieronymos (Liapis) of Thebes and Levadeia was elected to succeed Christodoulos.

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