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DATA on Christian Orthodox Churches worldwide

here copied from "SPIEGEL" (German Weekly)

Patriarchate of Constantinople: 7 Mio. (worldwide diaspora: e.g. 1,5 Mio in USA)

Patriarchate of Alexandria: 350.000

Patriarchate of Antiochia: 1, 5 Mio (worlwide diaspora: e.g. 250.000 in USA)

Patriarchate of Jerusalem: 156.000

Russian Orthodox Church - Patriarchate of Moscow: 160 Mio.

Russian Orthodox Church - Outside Russia: 1, 5 Mio.

Serbian Orthodox Church: 7 Mio.

Roumanian Orthodox Church: 20 Mio.

Bulgarian Orthodox Church: 7 Mio.

Greek Orthodox Church: 10 Mio.

Orthodox Church of Georgia - Patriarchate of Tbilissi: 4 Mio.

Orthodox Church of Cyprus: 500.000

Orthodox Churches of:
America: 1 Mio
Polonia: 1 Mio
Albania: 700.000
Czech. Lands and Slowakia: 74.000
Finland: 65.000
Japan: 30.000

 

(Coptic, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church: 38 Mio.)

(Armenian Apostolic Church: 6 Mio.)

(Syrian Orthodox Church, also present in India: 2, 5 Mio.)

 

World-wide Orthodoxy by Continent:

AMERICA:
- North America: 6 Mio
- - USA
- - Canada
- South America: 2 Mio
- - Argentina
- - Brasilia
- - Venezuela
- - Cuba
- - Haiti

EUROPE:
- Eastern Europe: 184 Mio
- Western Europe: 2, 2 Mio
- - Germany: 900.000
- - Great Britain: 350.000
- - France: 250.000
- - Austria: 150.000
- - Italy: 150.000
- - Sweden,Norway: 150.000
- - Netherlands,Belgium: 120.000
- - Switzerland: 80.000
- - Spain: 20.000

ASIA: 34 Mio
- Russia and CIS-countries: 30 Mio.
- Middle East: 2 Mio
- - India: 1, 5 Mio
- - China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China: 150.000

AFRICA: 30 Mio
- - Egypt: 7 Mio
- - Soudan
- - Ethiopia: 20 Mio
- - Kenya,Ouganda,Zaire,Tanzanya: 450.000
- - Zimbabwe
- - Nigeria: 10.000
- - Cameroun: 21 parishes

AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND: 1 Mio

ANTARCTICA: 2 Polar Chapels (Russian and Bulgarian)


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United in Faith, Prayer and Divine Service Tradition - World-Orthodoxy consists of local churches, which constitute the parts of The Church "The Mystical Body of Christ".
Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ is the head of The Church and the only Lord and Master.
Orthodox "Presiding Bishops" independant of their title like "Patriarch", "Archbishop" or "Metropolitan" lead independently elected, completely autonomous church administrations.
For consultations and coordination representatives of all orthodox churches may be called in for a sacred council by the Oecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who will preside as First Bishop among Equal Bishops.

in similar cultural and liturgical tradition but officially not afiliated is the family of the "Old Oriental Churches"

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