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The '''Vicariate for Palestinian<!-- Though the official name of the vicariate includes a slash (/Jordanian Communities in the USA''' ), this article is named with a [[jurisdiction]] of hyphen (-) due to the [[Church technicalities of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] in the United Stateswiki-naming, i.e., consisting of parishes formerly belonging to a slash would make the [[Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in North and South America]]wiki software think that this was a sub-article. It was formed Keep this in 2008 mind when linking to this article, and is directly under please don't rename it to include the [[omophorion]] of the archbishop of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]]slash.-->{{orthodoxyinamerica}}
==External link==*[http://www.goarch.orgThe '''Vicariate for Palestinian/en/news/NewsDetail.asp?id=2038 Decisions on Some Palestinian and Jordanian communities Communities in the USA''' is an administrative grouping formed in 2008 under the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] (GOA). The Vicariate consists of parishes and monasteries formerly belonging to the [[Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in North and South America], from ]. The Vicariate is directly under the [[omophorion]] of the GOAarchbishop rather than the local [[metropolis]] websitein which the communities find themselves.
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Tensions existed between this group of parishes and monasteries while it was under the Jerusalem Patriarchate and the [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America]], as the latter claims that Jerusalem worked to pull parishioners away from Antiochian (and [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America|Greek]]) parishes and into its own jurisdiction. The [[Ben Lomond Crisis]] of 1998, in which an Antiochian parish in California split into two factions, one of which eventually made its way into the Jerusalem Patriarchate (including the re-[[ordination]] of some of the clergy), further exacerbated these tensions.
As a result, as of [[May 2]], 2003, American Antiochian [[clergy]] were forbidden by their [[primate]], Metr. [[Philip (Saliba) of New York]], from [[concelebration|concelebrating]] or communing with American Jerusalem clergy (though not with clergy of the Jerusalem Patriarchate assigned to parishes in the Middle East). With the creation of the Vicariate, Metr. Philip again reiterated his 2003 archpastoral directive on [[August 7]], 2008, lamenting the action of the Ecumenical Patriarchate taking in communities that had formed mainly by breaking from Antiochian parishes.
In addition, a number of priests of the Jerusalem Patriarchate refused to accept the decision creating a new vicariate, stating their preference to remain under Jerusalem ([http://www.orthodoxnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=USNews.one&content_id=17215&CFID=126821103&CFTOKEN=38555010 Kalmoukos, 2008]).
==Sources==
*''Archpastoral directive'' of Metr. [[Philip (Saliba) of New York]], dated [[May 2]], 2003.
*''[http://www.antiochian.org/files/8-7-08%20Re%20GOA%20Palestinian%20Vicariate.pdf Archpastoral directive]'' of Metr. Philip (Saliba) of New York, dated [[August 7]], 2008.
==External links==
*[http://www.angelfire.com/zine/rocanews/ Vicariate for Palestinian/Jordanian Communities in the USA (Unofficial Page)]
*[http://www.goarch.org/news/2008-08-05-decisiononcommunities Decisions on Some Palestinian and Jordanian communities in the USA], from the [[GOA]] website (Aug. 5, 2008)
*Theodore Kalmoukos. [http://www.orthodoxnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=USNews.one&content_id=17215&CFID=126821103&CFTOKEN=38555010 Palestinian Priest Against New Vicariate]. The National Herald, 15 August, 2008.
*[http://www.orthodoxnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=USNews.one&content_id=17237&CFID=126695229&CFTOKEN=30426814 No Communion for New Vicariate Clergy]. The National Herald. August 22, 2008.
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