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THE WESTERN AND EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES

The Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan.

In A.D. 1579 the Russians at long last captured the last Tartar holdout
on the soil of Holy Russia.
The victory was attributed to the miraculous intervention
of the icon shown above, thereafter the holiest object in all Russia
(In fact, in Russian Orthodoxy this icon has two feast days, July 8 and October 22).
In the early 1700s Tsar Peter I (the Great) brought the icon
from Moscow
to his new city of St, Petersburg,
where, in 1800, his successor
Tsar Paul I began building for it on the Nevsky Prospekt
the monumental Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan,
which is a replica, almost a duplicate, of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome,
because he had hopes of effecting a reunion of
Russian Orthodoxy with Roman Catholicism.

In 1904 the icon was stolen by parties unknown from the icon screen of the Cathedral.
A legend says that it reappeared in Moscow
in Tsar Nicholas II's room
the night before he abdicated,
but then disappeared again.
Reportedly, the Communists sold it in the 1920s
to some Western Europeans for gold bullion
after which it was lost for at least 50 years.
In the 1970s, however, either it or a very impressive forgery of it
was reportedly found in storeage at the British Museum in London
and purchased by the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima,
who kept it in Fatima, Portugal,
before entrusting it to the Vatican,
which aheld it for over a decade
before returning it to Holy Russia.

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THE WESTERN AND EASTERN CHURCHES

(An * means in communion with Pope John Paul II):

The Three Original Patriarchates:
- *Rome (see founded ca. A.D. 55)
  - Catholic
    - Roman Catholic Church
      (Pope John Paul II, Bishop of Rome, Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Primate of Italy, Patriarch of the West)::
      - *The Roman Rite:
        
        The Historic (Tridentine) Rite:
        
        *in Latin.
        *Indult for South Slavs in Dalmatia to use the Tridentine Rite in Old Slavonic.
        
        The Reformed (Post-Vatican II Council) Rite:
        
        * in Latin
        * in vernacular languages.
      - *The Historic Rites of Religious Orders:
        
        *Carthusian Rite in Latin
        *Rite of the Holy Sepulchre (Carmelite) in Latin.
        *Cistercian Rite in Latin.
        *Dominican Rite in Latin.
        *Premonstratensian Rite in Latin.
        *(so-called) Conventual and Capuchin Franciscan Rites in Latin.
        *(so-called) Benedictine Rite in Latin.
        *(so-called) Servite Rite in Latin.
      - *Milanese (Ambrosian) Rite in Latin.
      - *Iberian (Mozarabic) Rite in Latin.
        
        *Toledan Use in Latin
        *Bragan Use in Latin
      - *Frankish (Gallican) Rite in Latin
        
        *Lyonaise Use in Latin
        *Various British Uses (e.g., Sarum (Salisbury in England)) in Latin (all extinct)
        
        *Corrected ("Pastoral Provision") Anglican Sarum Use in English.
      - *Indult for Italo-Greeks from and in Sicily, Apulia and Calabria for use of a modified Byzantine Rite in Greek.
    - Independent Catholic Churches:
      - [Various Hussite, Jansenist, French Civil-Constitution, Polish National, Polish Mariavite, Brazilian Catholic, Philippine Independent and Chinese Patriotic Churches maintain, or claim, valid orders]
        
        The Union of Utrecht (the authentic Old Catholics:
        orders derived from the Jansensist schism in The Netherlands):
        
        Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland.
        (Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands)
        Christkatholische Kirche in der Schweiz.
        (Old Catholic Church in Switzerland)
        Altkatholische Kirche in Deutschland.
        (Old Catholic Church in Germany)
        Alt-katholische Kirche Österreichs.
        (Old Catholic Church of Austria)
        Église Vielle-Catholique de France.
        (Old Catholic Church of France)
        Gammalkatolska Kyrkan i Sverige.
        (Old Catholic Church in Sweden)
        Starokatolická Církev v Ceskoslovsku.
        (Old Catholic Church of Czechoslovakia)
        Starkokatolicka Crkva u Jugoslavij.
        (Old Catholic Church of Yugoslavia)
        Chiesa Christiana Cattolica.
        (Catholic Christian Church)
        Staro-Katolicki Koskiól Mariawitów.
        (Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites)
        
        Order of Mariavites in Germany.
        
        Polish National Catholic Church of America. (Most Rev. John Swantek, Prime Bishop)
        Koskiól Polsko Katolicki.
        (Polish Catholic Church)
        
        The National Catholic Apostolic Churches:
        (claiming orders from the Duarte Costa schism in Brazil).
        
        Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasiliera.
        (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church)
        Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Méxicana.
        (Mexican Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church)
        Iglesia Católica Apostólica de Chile.
        (Catholic Apostolic Church of Chile)
        Catholic Apostolic Church in North America.
        The New Catholic Communion.
        Holy Catholic Apostolic Church.
        Iglesia Filipina Católica Independiente.
        (Independent Catholic Filipino Church)
        
        The Traditional Catholic Church:
        (orders derived from the Cornejo-Radavero schism in Peru)
        
        Église Catholique Traditionelle.
        (Traditional Catholic Church)
        
        The Tridentine Latin-Rite Catholic Church:
        (orders derived from the Ngo Dinh Thuc schism in Europe)
        
        Holy Palmarian Church.
        Union Católico Trento.
        (Tridentine Catholic Union)
        Latin-Rite Catholic Church
  - Orthodox:
    - [Certain small groups claim apostolic succession through various Eastern Churches,
      yet use versions of Western Rites and call themselves Western Orthodox Churches.
      I hope to be able to identify as many of them as possible here.]
      Old Catholic Church in America. (USA)
      Western Orthodox Church in America. (USA)
  - Non-Ephesian (so-called Nestorian):
    - (There have never been Non-Ephesians under this patriarchate)
  - Non-Chalcedonian (so-called Monophysite):
    - (There have never been Non-Chalcedonians under this patriarchate)
- Alexandria (see founded ca. A.D. 65):
  - Catholic:
    - Latin Catholic:
      - *The Catholic Latin Patriarchate of Alexandria. (created in A.D. 1215)
        ( )
    - Melkite Greek Catholic:
      - *The Catholic Melkite Patriarchate of Alexandria. (patriarchate created in A.D. )
        (His Beatitude Maximos V Hakim, Patriarch of Alexandria; Since A.D. 1938 the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch has also been Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria and of Jerusalem):
        
        Egypt:
        
        *The Catholic Melkite Church of Egypt.
        
        Ethiopia:
        
        *The Catholic Melkite Church of Ethiopia (created in A.D. )
        (His ____, Abuna of Ethiopia).
        
        South Africa:
        
        North America:
    - Nestorian Catholic (non-existent)
    - Jacobite Catholic:
      - *The Catholic Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria. (patriarchate created in A.D. 1824)
        (His Beatitude Stephanos Ghattas I, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Catholic Copts)
        
        Egypt:
        
        *The Catholic Coptic Church of Egypt. (created in A.D. )
        
        Ethiopia:
        
        *The Catholic Coptic Church of Ethiopia. (created in A.D. )
        (His ______, Abuna of Ethiopia.
        
        South Africa:
        
        North America:
    - Gregorian Catholic:
      - *The Catholic Armenian Bishopric of Alexandria. (see created im A.D. )
        
        Egypt:
  - Orthodox:
    - The Melkite Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria. (apostolic origin)
      (His Beatitude Petros VII, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa and Ecumenical Judge)
      - Egypt:
        
        The Orthodox Melkite Church of Egypt. (apostolic origin)
      - Ethiopia
        
        The Orthodox Melkite Abuna of Ethiopia. (apostolic origin)
        ( )
      - South Africa:
      - North America:
        
        Coptic:
        
        Ethiopian:
  - Non-Ephesian (so-called Nestorian):
    - [There have never been Nestorians in Africa]
  - Non-Chalcedonian (so-called Monophysite):
    - Jacobite:
      - The Christian Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria. (apostolic origin)
        (Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa)
        
        Egyptian:
        
        Egypt:
        
        The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Eqypt. (apostolic origin)
        ( )
        
        Britain:
        
        The British Coptic Orthodox Church. (created in A.D. 1994)
        (Abba Seraphim, Metropolitan of Glastonbury)
        
        America:
        
        Ethiopian:
        (His Holiness Abba Tekle Haimanot, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia)
        
        Ethiopia:
        
        America:
        
        The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. (apostolic origin)
        (His Excellency Yesehaq, Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Western Hemisphere)
    - Gregorian:
      - The Armenian Archbishopric of Alexandria. (created in A.D. )
        ( )
        
        Egypt:
- Antioch (see founded ca. A.D. 45):
  - Catholic:
    - Latin Catholic:
      - *The Latin Patriarchate of Antioch (created in A.D. ).
    - Melkite Greek Catholic:
      - *The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East.
        (His Beatitude Maximos V Hakim, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East; Since A.D. 1938 the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch has also been Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria and of Jerusalem):
        
        Greater Syria:
        
        India:
        
        *The Catholic Melkite Syro-Malabar Church of India.
        
        Europe:
        
        Syrian:
        
        Indian:
        
        North America:
        
        Syrian:
        
        The Catholic Melkite Eparchy of Newton:
        (Most Reverend John Elya, Eparch of Newton)
        
        Indian:
    - Nestorian Catholic:
      - *The Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon
        
        East Syria:
        
        *The Chaldean Catholic Church of the East
        (His Beatitude Mar Raphail I Bidawid, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans)
        
        India:
        
        *The Catholic Syro-Malabar Church
        (Mar Antony Cardinal Padiyara, Major Archbishop)
        
        North America:
    - Jacobite Syrian Catholic:
      *The Catholic Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch.
      
      Greater Syria:
      (His Beatitude Ignatius Anthony II Hayek, Antiochian Patriarch of of the Syrian Catholics:
      
      India:
      
      *The Knanya Christians
      
      *Diocese of Trichur.
      *Diocese of Kottayam.(The Knanaya Catholics)
      (His Eminence Kuriakose Kunnacherry, Bishop of Kottayam)
      
      *The Catholic Syro-Malankara Church
      
      North America:
      
      The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in North America.
    - Maronite Syrian Catholic:
      - *The Catholic Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch.
        (His Eminence Mar Nasrallah-Peter Cardinal Sfeir, Patriarch of Maronite Antioch):
        
        Greater Syria:
        
        *Apostolic Maronite Patriarchal Church of Antioch.
        
        Europe:
        
        North America:
        
        *The Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn.
        (Archbishop-Bishop Stephen Hector Doueihi)
        *The Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles.
        (Bishop John George Chedid)
    - Gregorian Armenian Catholics:
      - *The Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia of the Armenians:
        
        (His Beatitude Nersses Boulos XIX, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Catholic Armenians)
  - Orthodox:
    - The Melkite Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. (apostolic origin)
      (His Beatitude Ignatius IV Hazim, Bishop-Patriarch of Antioch and All the East)
      - Greater Syria:
        
        The Orthodox Melkite Church of Antioch.
        ( )
      - Cyprus:
        
        The Holy Church of Cyprus. (autocephalous in A.D. 431)
        (His Beatitude Chrysostomos, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus)
      - Georgia:
        
        The Orthodox Patriarchate of Georgia. (autocephalous in 8th Century)
        (His Holiness Iliya II, Archbishop of Mtthet and Tbilisi, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia)
      - India:
        
        The Orthodox Melkite Syro-Malankara Church of India.(autonomous)
        (vacant, formerly Bazelious Paulose II, Catholicos of the East)
      - North America:
        
        Syrian:
        
        Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
        (The Most Reverend Philip Saliba, Archbishop and Primate)
        
        Indian:
  - Non-Ephesian (so-called Nestorian):
    - Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East - Old Calendar.
      ( )
    - Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East - New Calendar.
      (His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, Metropolitan of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Catholicos and Patriarch of the East)
      - Iraq:
      - Greater Syria:
        
        Archdiocese of The Lebanon
        (His Excellency Mar Narsai de Baz)
      - India:
        
        The Syro-Malabar Orthodox Church (Surais (Elias Melus)).
        ( )
        
        Knanaya Christians.
      - Iran:
      - Europe:
      - America:
        
        Diocese of the Eastern United States of America.
        (His Eminence Mar Aprim Khamis)
        Diocese of the Western United States of America
        (His Eminence Mar Bawai Soro)
        Diocese of Canada
        (His Eminence Mar Emmanuel)
      - Oceania:
        
        Diocese of Australia and New Zealand
        (His Eminence Mar Meelis Zaia)
  - Non-Chalcedonian (so-called Monophysite):
    - The Jacobite Patriarchate of Antioch
      The Universal Syrian Orthodox Church.
      (His Holiness Moran Mar Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Prince Patriarch of Antioch and All the East) )
      - Arabic:
        
        Syria
        The Lebanon
        Iraq
        Turkey
        India
        Middle Europe
        Scandinavia
        Great Britain
        Oceania
        South America
        North America:
        
        Archdiocese for the Eastern United States of America
        (His Eminence Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim, Archbishop for the Eastern United States)
        Archdiocese for the Western United States of America
        (His Eminence Mor Clemis Eugene Kaplan, Archbishop for the Western United States)
        Archdiocese for Canada
        (His Eminence Mor xxxxxx, Archbishop for the Canada)
      - Indian
        
        India (Malankara; Palayur; Koovakayal; Kokkamangalam; Kollam; Niranam; & Nilackel):
        
        Puthankootukai:
        
        Methran Kakshi
        The Syro-Malankara Orthodox Church of India. (autocephalous in A.D. 1934)
        (His Holiness Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews II, The Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan)
        
        (His Grace Mathews Mar Barnabus, Metropolitan of the American Diocese)
        
        Bhava Kakshi
        
        Knanaya Christians
        
        Thozhiyr
        
        The Syrian Jacobite Knanaya Christians
        
        The Orthodox Catholic Church of America.
        (The Most Reverend Alfred Louis Lankenau, Archbishop-Metropolitan of North America)
        
        Metran: The Marthomite Malankara Church
        The Mar Thoma Church.
        (His Grace the Most Reverend Dr. Alexander Mar Thoma XIX, Metropolitan of Niranam-Maramon)
        
        The Lebanon
        Iraq
        Turkey
        Syria
        Middle Europe
        Scandinavia
        Great Britain
        Oceania
        South America
        North America:
        
        Methran Kakshi:
        
        American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
        (Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios, Senior Metropolitan of the USA and Metropolitan of Canada and Europe)
        
        Bhava Kakshi:
        
        Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America.
        (His Eminence Mor Titus Yeldho, Archbishop of the Malankara Archdiocese in North America)
        
        Knanya Christians:
        
        North American Knanaya Diocese.
        ( )
        
        Mar Thoma Christians:
        
        Diocese of North America and Europe.
        (Right Reverend Dr. Zacharias Mar Theophilus, Bishop of North America and Europe)
    - The Gregorian Armenian Orthodox Church.
      - Catholicos of Etchmiadzin
        (His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of Etchmiadzin and All Armenians
      - Catholicos of Cilicia
        (His Holiness Khoren I, Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians)
The Two Later Patriarchates (derived from Antioch):
- Constantinople (patriarchate founded A.D. 381):
  - Catholic:
    - Latin Catholic:
      - *The Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople.
    - Melkite Catholic:
      - The Catholic Melkite Patriarchate of Constantinople [not (yet) formed].
        
        Greek Metropolitanate:
        
        Bulgarian Metropolitanate:
        
        Romanian Metropolitanate:
        
        Ukrainian Major Archbishopric:
        
        Ukraine:
        
        *The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kiev.
        
        America:
        
        *The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg. (His Grace Archeparch Michael Bzdel, C.Ss.R)
        *The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of _______. (His Grace )
        
        Byelorussian Metropolitanate:
        
        Russian Metropolitanate:
        
        Slovak:
        
        Slovakia:
        
        *Slovak Greek Catholic Metropolitanate
        
        America:
        
        *The Carpatho-Ruthenian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh. (His Grace Archeparch Judson Procyk, DD)
        
        Hungarian Metropolitanate:
        
        Yugoslav:
        
        *Krizevei Greek Catholic Metropolitanate
        
        Albanian Metropolitanate:
    - Nestorian Catholic (non-existent):
    - Jacobite Syrian Catholic (non-existent):
    - Jacobite Coptic Catholic (non-existent):
    - Gregorian Armenian Catholic:
      - *The Catholic Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople.
        (Patriarch of Constantinople and of Cilicia of the Armenians)
  - Orthodox:
    - The Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople:
      - The Great Church of Christ - The Web Site of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
        (His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, The New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch)
        
        The Greek Church:
        
        Greece:
        
        Mount Athos.
        The Orthodox Church of Greece (autocephalous in A.D. 1850)
        (His Beatitude Christodoulos Paraskevaides, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece)
        
        Western Europe:
        
        The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy.
        The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain.
        L'Eglise Othodoxe en France.
        The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Austria-Hungary.
        
        America:
        
        The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the United States of America. (see created in A.D. 1922)
        (His Eminence Spyridon, Archbishop of America)
        Greek Orthodox Metropolitanate of Toronto.
        (His Eminence Metropolitan Sotirios, Exarch of Canada)
        Greek Orthodox Metropolitanate of Central America.
        Greek Orthodox Metropolitanate of South America.
        
        Oceania:
        
        The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
        (His Eminence Stylianus, Archbishop of Australia)
        
        The Russian Church:
        
        The Orthodox Patriarchate of Russia. (autocephalous in A.D. 1589)
        (His Holiness Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
        
        Russia:
        Europe:
        America:
        
        The Orthodox Church in America (The Metropolia). (autocephalous in A.D. 1970)
        (His Beatitude Theodosius, Archbishop of Washington, Metrpolitan of All America and Canada, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America)
        
        Asia:
        
        The Orthodox Church of Japan. (autonomous in A.D. )
        (His Eminence Theodosius, Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan)
        The Orthodox Church of China. (autonomous in A.D. )
        ( )
        
        Independent Russian Orthodox Churches:
        
        Russia:
        
        The Free Russian Orthodox Church.
        (His Eminence Archbishop Valentin)
        
        Western Europe:
        
        The Karlovtsy Synod. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. (founded in 1920)
        (Metropolitan Vitaly, the First Hierarch)
        The Russian Orthodox Archdiocese in Western Europe. (see created in 1931)
        (His Eminence Archbishop George)
        
        America:
        
        The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America. (founded in A.D. 1927)
        (Bishop Symeon, First Hierarch)
        
        The Ukrainian Church:
        
        The Othodox Church of Ukraine. ( )
        (Philaret I, Patriach of Kyyiv and All Ukraine)
        
        Ukraine:
        Western Europe:
        America:
        
        Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA.
        (His Eminence Constantine, Exarch of ____ and Metropolitan of the USA)
        Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada
        (His Eminence Wasyly, Archibishop of Winnipeg and the Central Diocese and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada)
        
        Independent Ukrainian Orthodox Churches:
        
        Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church
        (His Eminence Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyyiv and of All Ukraine)
        
        Ukraine:
        Western Europe:
        America:
        
        The Serbian Church:
        
        The Orthodox Patriarchate of Serbia. (autocephalous in A.D. 1879):
        (His Holiness Pavle I, Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovi and Serbian Patriarch)
        
        Yugoslavia:
        New Gracanica Metropolitanate
        
        America:
        
        Diocese of the United States of America and Canada.
        (The Most Reverend Metropolitan Christopher)
        
        The Romanian Church:
        
        The Orthodox Patriarchate of Romania (autocephalous in A.D. 1885).
        (His Beatitude Theoktist, Patriarch of All Romania, Locum Tenens of Caesarea in Cappadocia, Metropolitan of Ungaro-Vlachia, Archbishop of Bucharest)
        
        Romania:
        America:
        
        Romanian Orthodox Missionary Episcopate in America
        (The Most Reverend Archbishop Victorin)
        
        The Romanian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (see Russian Church supra)
        (The Right Reverend Nathaniel, Bishop of Detroit and Romanian Episcopate)
        
        Independent Romanian Orthodox Churches:
        
        The Bulgarian Church:
        
        The Orthodox Patriarchate of Bulgaria. (autocephalous in ca. A.D. 920 )
        (His Holiness Maxim, Patriarch of Bulgaria and Archbishop of Sofia)
        
        Bulgaria:
        Central and Wstern Europe:
        
        Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church in Central and Western Europe.
        (The Most Reverend Simeon, Metropolitan of CEntral and Western Europe)
        
        America and Oceania:
        
        Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church in America and Australia.
        (The Most Reverend Joseph, Metropolitan of America and Australia)
        
        The Bulgarian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (see Russian Church supra)
        (The Most Reverend Kyril, Archbishop of Pittsburgh and the Bulgarian Diocese)
        
        The Albanian Church"
        
        The Orthodox Church of Albania. (autocephalous in A.D. ).
        (His Beatitude Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania)
        
        Albania:
        America:
        
        Albanian Orthodox Metropolitanate of America.
        (The Reverend Illia Katre, Vicar General)
        
        The Albanian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (see Russian Church supra)
        (The Most Blessed Theodore, Administrator)
        
        The Polish Church:
        
        The Orthodox Church of Poland (autocephalous in A.D. 1765).
        (His Beatitude Basil, Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland)
        
        The Czech and Slovak Church:
        
        The Orthodox Church of the Czech and Slovak Republics. (autocephalous in A.D. 1765).
        (His Beatitude Dorotheus, Metrpolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia)
        
        Czech Republic and Slovakia:
        America:
        
        The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (see Russian Church supra).
        (The Right Reverende Nicholas, Titular Bishop of Amicsos)
        
        The Finnish Church:
        
        The Orthodox Church of Finland. ( )
        (His Eminence John, Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland)
        
        The Estonian Church:
        
        Orthodox Metropolitanate of Estonia. ( )
        ( )
  - Non-Ephesian (so-called Nestorian):
    - [extinct since the Fourth Century]
  - Non-Chalcedonian (so-called Monophysite):
    - The Gregorian Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople.
- Jerusalem (patriarchate founded A.D. 451):
  - Catholic:
    - The Latin Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem (created A.D. 1099; only Titular Patriarchs from A.D. 1291 until A.D. 1847, when a residential Patriarch was again named).
      (His Beatitude Michel A. Sabbah, Patriarch of Jerusalem)
    - The Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem
      (His Beatitude Maximos V Hakim, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem; Since A.D. 1938 the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch has also been Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, the see of Jersulam being administered by a patriarchal vicar, now Msgr. Lufti Laham, Titular Archbishop of Tarsus)
    - The Catholic Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch's Diocese of Jerusalem (see established in A.D. 1810; but administered by a patriarchal vicar, now Msgr. Pierre Abdel Ahad, Titular Archbishop of xxxx).
    - The Catholic Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch's Bishopric of Jerusalem (see established in A.D. 1895; but administered by a patriarchal vicar, now Msgr. Paul Nabil Sayah):
    - The Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon's Bishopric of Jerusalem (see established in A.D. 1908; but administered by a patriarchal vicar now Rev. Paul Collin):
    - The Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia of the Armenians' Bishopric of Jerusalem (see established in A.D. 1856; but administered by a patriarchal exarch, now Msgr. André Bedoglouyan, Titular Bishop of Comana):
  - Orthodox:
    - The Melkite Orthodox Patriarchate of Jersusalem.
      (His Beatitude Diodoros, The Most Blessed and Holy Patriarch of the Holy City Jerusalem and all Palestine, of Syria, Arabia beyond the Jordan, Cana of Galilee and Holy Sion)
      - The Orthodox Melkite Church of Sinai (autonomous in A.D. 1782).
  - Non-Ephesian (so-called Nestorian):
    - Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Metropolitanate of Jerusalem (extinct since A.D. 1282)
  - Non-Chalcedonian (so-called Monophysite):
    - The Jacobite Syrian Metropolitanate of Jerusalem.
    - The Jacobite Coptic Archbishopric of the East, of the the Anastasis, and of Jerusalem.
    - The Jacobite Ethiopian Archbishopric of Jerusalem.
    - The Gregorian Armenian Patriarchate of Saint James in Jerusalem. (His Beatitude Torkom Manoogian, 96th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem)

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