The Archdiocese of America, better known as the

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, headquartered in New York City, is an eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Its current primate is Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. Archbishop On May 11, 2019, the church's Hol ...

, is a jurisdiction of the

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under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was formally constituted in 1922 and has had seven Archbishops. The Archdiocese currently covers the

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and one parish in the

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, and is mostly

Greek-American Greek Americans ( el, Ελληνοαμερικανοί ''Ellinoamerikanoí'' ''Ellinoamerikánoi'' ) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry. The lowest estimate is that 1.2 million Americans are of Greek descent while the highest es ...

in composition and culture.

Archbishops of America

The following individuals have held the office of Archbishop of America: * Alexander (Demoglou), Archbishop of America (1922–1930) * Athenagoras, Archbishop of America (1931–1948) * Timotheos, Archbishop of America (Elected in 1949) * Michael, Archbishop of America (1949–1958) * Iakovos, Archbishop of America (1959–1996) * Spyridon, Archbishop of America (1996–1999) *

Demetrios, Archbishop of America Archbishop Demetrios (born Demetrios Trakatellis; el, Δημήτριος Τρακατέλλης) is a former elder archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Exarch of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He resigned from this posit ...

(1999–2019) * Elpidophoros, Archbishop of America (2019 to present)

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Archbishops of the Russian Diocese of the Aleutians and North America

The Diocese of the Aleutians and North America was a pan-ethnic and missionary jurisdiction of the

under the

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from 1900 to 1922. (Before this period it was known as the "Diocese of the Aleutians and Alaska" from 1870 to 1900; before that, it was part of the Diocese of Kamchatka, Russia, from 1840 to 1870, and before that, of the Diocese of Irkutsk, Russia. From the 1920s until 1970 it was the "Metropolia of All America and Canada" /k/a the "Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America" and since 1970 it has also been known as "The

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," covering the United States, Canada, Mexico, and two parishes in Australia.) From 1905 to 1922, its

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held the title of Archbishop: *

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** Bishop of the Aleutians and Alaska, 1898-1900 ** Bishop of the Aleutians and North America, 1900-1905 ** Archbishop of the Aleutians and North America, 1905-1907 * Platon (Rozhdestvensky), Archbishop of the Aleutians and North America, 1907-1914 * Evdokim (Meschersky), Archbishop of the Aleutians and North America, 1914-1918 * Alexander (Nemolovsky), Archbishop of the Aleutians and North America, 1919-1922 Since 1922 its incumbents and primates have held the title of Metropolitan of All America and

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. Today it is majority-Russian in ecclesiastical heritage, but with significant Romanian, Albanian, Bulgarian, and Mexican (in Mexico) jurisdictions and at least one Arab parish - all largely English- (or Spanish-)speaking - as well as increasing numbers of transfers from other Orthodox jurisdictions, and converts to Orthodoxy.

Archbishops of the Russian Exarchate of North America

The

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was another jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church under its

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from 1933 to 1970. While most of its bishops were titled Metropolitans of varying Sees, the final one was *

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, Archbishop of New York and the Aleutians, 1967–1970. Moscow was permitted to replace this Exarchate, and a diocese in Canada, with a non-diocesan patriarchal vicariate in each country, the United States and Canada, when it and the Metropolia were reconciled, and Moscow recognized the Metropolia's autocephaly, in 1970. These vicariates form the "

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", sometimes described as "''Russian Orthodox Church in the USA''", with some patriarchal parishes in Canada.{{Cite web , url=http://www.orthodoxcanada.net/ , title=Archived copy , access-date=2022-06-24 , archive-date=2020-10-23 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023000735/http://orthodoxcanada.net/ , url-status=dead

Archbishops of America

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Archbishops of the Russian Diocese of the Aleutians and North America

Archbishops of the Russian Exarchate of North America

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