Vicariate for Palestinian–Jordanian

Communities in the USA

The Vicariate for Palestinian–Jordanian Communities in the USA is an Eastern Orthodox Church
vicariate in the United States of America under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of
America.[1]

History
The Patriarchate of Jerusalem has a long history in the United States dating back to the 1920s. In 2002,
Archbishop Damaskinos of Jaffa was appointed as Epitropos (Vicar). These parishes remained under the
Jerusalem Patriarchate until 2007, when the Jerusalem Patriarchate subsequently decided to leave the
jurisdictional scene in North America.[2]

On August 5, 2008, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, which is an eparchy of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate of Constantinople, announced that the Patriarchate of Constantinople had agreed with the
Patriarchate of Jerusalem to transfer the Jerusalem parishes in America to a "Vicariate for
Palestinian/Jordanian Communities in the USA" within the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.[2]
The vicar would operate under the authority of the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of
America.[3]

As of 2008, there were 15 parishes involved: nine in California; one in the State of Washington; one in
Arizona; one in New York; one in Pennsylvania; one in Massachusetts; and one in Georgia.[4]

References
1. "Vicariate for the Palestinian/Jordanian Orthodox Christian Communities - Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of America - Orthodox Church" (https://www.goarch.org/-/vicariate-for-the-palest
inian-jordanian-orthodox-christian-communities). Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Retrieved 2023-10-07.
2. Herbel, Oliver. Turning to Tradition: Converts and the Making of an American Orthodox
Church (https://books.google.com/books?id=-SZnAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA141), p. 141 (Oxford
University Press 2014).
3. "Decisions on Some Palestinian and Jordanian Communities in the USA" (http://www.goarc
h.org/news/2008-08-05-decisiononcommunities), Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
(August 5, 2008).
4. Kalmoukos, Theodore (17 August 2008). "Palestinian Priest Against New Vicariate" (http://ar
chive.ocl.org/?id=17215). National Post.

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