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On August 11, 2008 In letters to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and Archbishop Demetrios the United States Orthodox Churches under the Jerusalem Patriarchate rejected the Vicariate for Palestinian/Jordanian Communities that was forced on them.
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The '''Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in North and South America''' as a jurisdiction comprised the [[parish]]es of the [[Church of Jerusalem]] represented in America by Archbishop Damaskinos of Jaffa. In 2008, by the agreement of the [[Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]] and Jerusalem, this jurisdiction was dissolved and its parishes formed the [[Vicariate for Palestinian-Jordanian Communities in the USA|Vicariate for Palestinian/Jordanian Communities in the USA]], directly answerable to the Archbishop of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]].[http://www.goarch.org/en/news/NewsDetail.asp?id=2038]
