Orthodoxy in America: Jurisdictions

Profiles of the major Orthodox jurisdictions in North America and the canonical anomaly of their overlap.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox (North American context)

Section Contents

• oca.md — The Orthodox Church in America: from the 1794 mission lineage to the contested autocephaly and its theological legacy
• greek-archdiocese.md — The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
• antiochian-archdiocese.md — The Antiochian Archdiocese: Syro-Arab roots, 1975 unification, the 1987 Evangelical Orthodox reception
• rocor-in-america.md — ROCOR’s American presence (summary; full treatment in Section 05)
• overlapping-jurisdictions.md — The complete jurisdictional map and why the canonical anomaly persists

Statistics follow the Krindatch censuses with years stated (see the section README’s sourcing note).

See Also

• Section README
• History — how this landscape came to be
• twentieth-century-fragmentation.md — the origin of the overlap

References

• See the section README for the principal sources used throughout this section; each content file carries its own full reference list.