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The '''[[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] in America''' comprises five separate [[jurisdiction]]s, 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[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/quick_question17.html] worshiping at roughly 750 [[parish]]es (about 725) and [[monastery|monasteries]] (about 25). It includes fourteen 14 defined dioceses (a number of which overlap, since multiple jurisdictions are represented), governed by nineteen 19 [[ruling bishop|diocesan ]] and [[auxiliary bishopsbishop|auxiliary]] [[bishop]]s. 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 and about two fifths of all Orthodox bishops in America.
==Jurisdictions==
