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As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris ...
Name Images Location Jurisdiction Dates Note Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption: 9th and Castro Sts., Oakland, California 1920 built 1978 NRHP-listed [1]: Designed by Charles Burrell, Beaux-Arts-style
These dioceses are the result of smaller ethnic jurisdictions joining the OCA at some point in its history, usually after having broken from other bodies. The Stavropegial Institutions are churches, monastic communities, and theological schools that are under the jurisdiction of the OCA's primate , Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard) .
Around this time, Catholic missionaries became active in Georgia, setting up small Latin communities. A Latin Church diocese was established at Tbilisi in 1329, but this was allowed to lapse after the appointment of the fourteenth and last of its line of bishops in 1507, owing to few numbers of Catholics. Catholic missions residence in Mingrelia.
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta is one of the Metropolises of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America with 73 parishes. [1]
Archdiocese of Lemnus (Lemnos, Greece) Archdiocese of Leontopolis in Augustamnica (Leontopolis, Egypt) Archdiocese of Leontopolis in Pamphylia (Ulupınar, Turkey) Archdiocese of Leucas (Lefkada, Greece) Archdiocese of Luxemburgum (Luxembourg City, Luxemburg) Archdiocese of Maronea (Maroneia, Greece) Archdiocese of Martyropolis (Silvan, Turkey)
In 2002, it was reported that there were 35 eparchies (dioceses) and about 600 churches within the Georgian Orthodox Church, served by 730 priests. The Georgian Orthodox Church has around 3,600,000 members within Georgia [3] [54] (no sources attempt to count members among the Georgian diaspora).
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