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Metropolis of Johannesburg

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The '''Holy Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria and Southern South Africa''' is a [[diocese]] in southern Africa under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox [[Church of Alexandria|Patriarchate of Alexandria]] and All Africa. Its territory includes the [[parish]]es and missions located in the areas from East Africa, the equator down to the Cape of Good Hope.
The see of Johannesburg was established as a diocese on [[December 15]], 1927, by a Patriarchal and Synodal Decree under the name '''Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Southern Africa'''. In the decade of 1960, independence movements formed and clashes started to occur in Southern Africa. In 1968, with the election of [[Paul (Lyngris) of Memphis|Archbishop Paul]], the archdiocese lost its territories in the provinces of the Cape, Natal and Orange, the territory of South West Africa (modern Namibia) and Mozambique, and the countries of Botswana and Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) to establish two new archdioceses.
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