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Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece

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Current hierarchs
The '''Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece''' is an [[Old Calendarist]] body (one of the [[Florinites|Florinite]] jurisdictions) Church which in 1935 broke from severed communion with the [[Church of Greece]] in 1935 over the latter's use acceptance of the "new calendar," also known as the [[Revised Julian Calendar]]. The adoption of the new calendar is was viewed as an assault on the ecclesiological beliefs abrogation of the Orthodox Church, in that it promotes 's historical festal unity and a contradiction of Orthodox self-understanding by establishing common worship with heretics to further non-Orthodox and furthering the goals of syncretistic [[Ecumenism]], while sacrificing liturgical festal unity among all the Orthodox ChristiansChurches. It is not in communion with any of the [http://orthodoxwiki[List of autocephalous and autonomous churches|mainstream Orthodox churches]], though it has enjoyed occasional support from mainstream churches which have retained the [[Julian Calendar]].org/List_of_autocephalous_and_autonomous_churches autocephalous Churches It also has support from some of the monks of [[Mount Athos]], including the historical brotherhood of the Monastery of Esphigmenou. Its current [[primate]] is Archbishop Chrysostomos II Kallinikos (KiousisSarantopoulos) of Athens and All Greece.  ==Organization==The Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece is made up of the Archdiocese of Athens, twelve Metropoleis in Greece, and three overseas Eparchies: America, Australia, and Europe. The [[Genuine Greek Orthodox Church of America| Eparchy of America]] was granted the status of semi-autonomy in 2002, which included the establishment of an Eparchial Synod along with a local Ecclesiastical Tribunal, and is comprised of two Metropoleis (America and Toronto) and two Dioceses (Boston and Portland), whose ruling hierarchs are suffragans of the Metropolitan of America based in New York City.
==Primates (1935-present)==
*Metropolitan Germanos of Demetrias (1935-1943)
*Metropolitan Chrysostom Chrysostomos of Florina (1943-1955)
*Archbishop Akakios of Athens (1960-1963)
*Archbishop Auxentios of Athens (1963-1986)
*Archbishop Chrysostom Chrysostomos II of Athens (1986-2010)*Archbishop Kallinikos of Athens (2010-present)
==Current hierarchs==
*Archbishop Chrysostom II of Athens
*Metropolitan Akakios of Diavlia
*Metropolitan Maximos Athanasios of DemetriasLarissa*Metropolitan Kallinikos Maximos of AchaiaThessalonica
*Metropolitan Justin of Evripos
*Metropolitan Pavlos of America
*Metropolitan Gerontios of Peiraeus
*Metropolitan Chrysostom Chrysostomos of Attica*Metropolitan Moses of Toronto*Bishop Sergios of Portland
*Bishop Gregory of Christianoupolis
*Bishop Theodosios of Vresthena
*Bishop Photios of Marathon
*Bishop Christodoulos of Theoupolis
*Bishop Demetrios of Boston
*Metropolitan Spyridon of Australia (retired)
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