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ORTHODOX PATRIARCHS

There are four ancient patriarchates:

     Antioch, Alexandria, CONSTANTINOPLE, and Jerusalem

There are four more recent patriarchates:

     Georgia, Moscow, Serbia, and Bulgaria

The Major jurisdictions in North America:

     The autocephalous Orthodox Church in America, desxcended from the earliest Orthodox people in North America and embracing Romanian and other bodies; the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese; the autonomous and the rapidly growing Antiochian Archdiocese; the Russian Orthodox outside of Russia Exarchy; the Ukrainian Orthodox Church; and various smaller groups (all but a few of which are in communion with one or more of the foregoing)

ORTHODOX MONASTERIES