Ecumenical Patriarchate in America

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity in North America
History
History of Eastern Orthodoxy in North America Eastern Orthodoxy in North America timeline Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States bibliography Ligonier Meeting
People
Saints Bishops Writers
Jurisdictions (list)
Assembly of Bishops Ecumenical Patriarchate Greek Albanian ACROD Ukrainian Palestinian/Jordanian GOAC UOCC GOMM Antiochian AOAM Russian ROCOR Serbian Romanian Bulgarian Georgian OCA Other AOCC Macedonian
Monasteries
List of monasteries in the United States
Seminaries
Christ the Saviour Holy Cross Holy Trinity St. Andrew's St. Herman's St. Tikhon's St. Sava's St. Sophia's St. Vladimir's
Organizations
Active ACOBUSA ACOBCA IOCC OCEC OCF OCL OCMC OISM OTSA Other ACOBLA Defunct SCOBA
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate in America comprises nine separate jurisdictions, along with a number of stavropegial institutions, and includes roughly two-thirds of all Eastern 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.

Reliable statistics are difficult to find, but the Ecumenical Patriarchate has roughly 500,000 adherents (or up to 2 million, by some estimates) in the United States^[1] worshiping at about 750 parishes (about 725) and monasteries (about 25). This includes 14 defined dioceses (a number of which overlap, since multiple jurisdictions exist), governed by 19 diocesan and auxiliary bishops. Thus Constantinople is by far the largest numerical representation of Eastern Orthodoxy in North America, including roughly twice as many Eastern Orthodox Christians under its omophorion than all other jurisdictions combined and about two-fifths of all Orthodox bishops in America. Of the nine bishops who are members of SCOBA, four represent Constantinopolitan jurisdictions.^[2]