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Countries.

Every corner of the Christian world where the Orthodox faith is lived and prayed - apostolic patriarchates, mountain monasteries, mission fields young and ancient.

32
Countries
~185M
Faithful (approx.)
24K
Churches & Monasteries
5
Regions represented
32 of 32 countries
Region · № 01

Africa.

Desert of the Fathers and the ancient patriarchate of Alexandria - the cradle of monasticism.

2 countries
Flag of Egypt

Egypt

Africa

Egypt is the historic seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, one of the ancient patriarchates of the Pentarchy, though today Eastern Orthodox faithful form a small minority in the country.

Africa
Ancient autocephalous Patriarchate (Alexandria) with a small minority Orthodox population
Flag of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Africa

Ethiopia is home to a small but historic Eastern Orthodox community served by the Holy Archdiocese of Aksum of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, alongside the far larger (non-Chalcedonian) Ethiopian Tewahedo Church.

Africa
Minority Eastern Orthodox presence under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria (Archdiocese of Aksum)
Region · № 02

Asia.

Apostolic and missionary seeds stretching from Kerala to the Silk Road and across the Pacific.

8 countries
Flag of China
20K faithful

China

Asia

Eastern Orthodoxy has a small but historic presence in China, rooted in the Albazinian Cossacks of 17th-century Beijing and the Russian Spiritual Mission. The autonomous Chinese Orthodox Church counts only about 20,000 faithful today.

Asia
Autonomous Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate); minority presence
Flag of Georgia
3.1M faithful

Georgia

Asia

Georgia is a majority-Orthodox nation whose Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church traces its roots to the 4th-century mission of St. Nino and stands at the heart of Georgian culture and identity.

Asia
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (majority-Orthodox nation)
Flag of India

India

Asia

Eastern Orthodox Christianity in India is a small but historic minority, represented today by Russian and Greek parishes and by missions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, distinct from the much larger Oriental Orthodox Saint Thomas communities.

Asia
Minority Orthodox presence under Ecumenical Patriarchate (Metropolitanate of Singapore and South Asia) and Moscow Patriarchate (Exarchate of South-East Asia)
Flag of Israel
55K faithful

Israel

Asia

Israel is home to one of the oldest Orthodox Christian communities in the world, centered on the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem - the Mother Church of Christendom - and its many holy sites across the Holy Land.

Asia
Ancient autocephalous Patriarchate (Jerusalem) with minority faithful and additional canonical missions
Flag of Kazakhstan
3.3M faithful

Kazakhstan

Asia

Eastern Orthodoxy in Kazakhstan is organized as the Metropolia of Kazakhstan, a self-governing ecclesiastical province of the Russian Orthodox Church with nine eparchies and roughly 3.27 million faithful.

Asia
Self-governing Metropolitan District of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Flag of Lebanon
420K faithful

Lebanon

Asia

Lebanon is home to the ancient Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, whose faithful - often called Rūm Orthodox - form the country's second-largest Christian community and a cornerstone of Lebanese Christianity.

Asia
Historic minority under the autocephalous Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
Flag of Syria
700K faithful

Syria

Asia

Syria is the historic homeland of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, one of the ancient apostolic sees, with its see at the Mariamite Cathedral in Damascus and a faithful community shaped by nearly two thousand years of Christian history.

Asia
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East)
Flag of Turkey
20K faithful

Turkey

Asia

Turkey is the ancient heartland of Eastern Orthodoxy and seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, yet today hosts only a small Greek Orthodox and Antiochian Orthodox minority.

Asia
Historic seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; minority Orthodox presence today
Region · № 03

Europe.

From the Baptism of Rus’ to the Mediterranean heartlands - a vast liturgical family across the continent.

18 countries
Flag of Austria
440K faithful

Austria

Europe

Eastern Orthodoxy is the second-largest Christian confession in Austria, represented by multiple canonical jurisdictions - Greek, Serbian, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Antiochian - with Vienna as the spiritual and administrative centre.

Europe
Minority Orthodox presence; multiple canonical diaspora jurisdictions coordinated by the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Austria
Flag of Belarus
6.7M faithful

Belarus

Europe

Belarus is a majority-Orthodox country where roughly three-quarters of the population identify as Eastern Orthodox Christians, served by the Belarusian Orthodox Church - an exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate established in 1989.

Europe1.9K churches
Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate in a majority-Orthodox nation
Flag of Bosnia-Herzegovina
1.1M faithful

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Europe

Eastern Orthodoxy is the largest Christian tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with over one million faithful - almost entirely members of the Serbian Orthodox Church under the historic Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia.

Europe
Canonical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church (five eparchies, including the Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia)
Flag of Bulgaria
4.1M faithful

Bulgaria

Europe

Bulgaria is a historically Orthodox nation whose autocephalous Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Patriarchate of Bulgaria - was the first Slavic patriarchate, founded after the 9th-century baptism of Tsar Boris I.

Europe2.6K churches
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Patriarchate of Bulgaria) - majority-Orthodox nation
Flag of Cyprus
800K faithful

Cyprus

Europe

Cyprus is home to one of the oldest autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches, founded according to tradition by the Apostles Paul and Barnabas and granted independence at the Council of Ephesus in 431.

Europe
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Church of Cyprus)
Flag of Germany
1.5M faithful

Germany

Europe

Germany is home to a large and growing Eastern Orthodox community - around 1.5 million faithful - shaped by 19th-century royal chapels and, above all, post-war and recent immigration from Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine.

Europe
Canonical diaspora jurisdictions (multiple, in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate)
Flag of Greece
10M faithful

Greece

Europe

Greece is a majority-Orthodox nation where the autocephalous Church of Greece, together with jurisdictions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, shapes national life, liturgy, and identity.

Europe
Majority-Orthodox nation; Autocephalous Church of Greece alongside jurisdictions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
Flag of Ireland
100K faithful

Ireland

Europe

Eastern Orthodoxy in Ireland is a fast-growing minority faith, shaped largely by Greek, Romanian, Russian and Antiochian immigrants, and now organised under the new Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Ireland of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Europe
Canonical diaspora jurisdictions (Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Ireland under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, with Romanian, Russian and Antiochian presences)
Flag of Italy
900K faithful

Italy

Europe

Once part of the Byzantine Christian world and home to the first Orthodox church built in Western Europe, Italy today hosts around 900,000–1,000,000 Eastern Orthodox faithful served by Greek, Romanian, Russian, Serbian and other canonical jurisdictions.

Europe
Canonical diaspora jurisdictions (Greek, Romanian, Russian, Serbian and others)
Flag of Moldova
2.3M faithful

Moldova

Europe

Moldova is an overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian country where two canonical Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions coexist: the Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova (under Moscow) and the Metropolis of Bessarabia (under Bucharest).

Europe
Majority-Orthodox nation with two canonical jurisdictions (Moscow Patriarchate and Romanian Patriarchate)
Flag of Montenegro
443K faithful

Montenegro

Europe

Montenegro is a majority-Orthodox nation on the Adriatic coast of the Balkans, where roughly 71% of the population identifies as Eastern Orthodox under the canonical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Europe
Majority-Orthodox nation under the canonical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Flag of North Macedonia
847K faithful

North Macedonia

Europe

North Macedonia is a majority-Orthodox nation whose faithful are served by the Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archbishopric of Ohrid, which was reintegrated into the canonical Eastern Orthodox communion in 2022.

Europe500 churches
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archbishopric of Ohrid)
Flag of Romania
14M faithful

Romania

Europe

Romania is an overwhelmingly Orthodox nation, home to the autocephalous Romanian Orthodox Church (Biserica Ortodoxă Română), one of the largest Orthodox Churches in the world and the only autocephalous Church to use a Romance language for its liturgy.

Europe13K churches
Autocephalous Orthodox Patriarchate (majority-Orthodox nation)
Flag of Russia
90M faithful

Russia

Europe

Russia is the world's most populous Orthodox nation, home to the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), whose history begins with the Baptism of Rus' in 988 and whose patriarchate today serves roughly 90 million faithful.

Europe
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) - majority-Orthodox nation
Flag of Serbia
5.4M faithful

Serbia

Europe

Serbia is a historically Orthodox Christian nation, home to the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church, which traces its independence to Saint Sava in 1219 and counts roughly 5.4 million faithful today.

Europe3.5K churches
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Serbian Orthodox Church – Patriarchate of Peć)
Flag of Spain
1.5M faithful

Spain

Europe

Spain hosts one of Western Europe's largest Eastern Orthodox communities, with roughly 1.5 million faithful - mostly Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian immigrants - served by multiple canonical jurisdictions under the Ecumenical, Moscow, Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian Patriarchates.

Europe
Canonical diaspora jurisdictions (multi-jurisdictional presence)
Flag of Ukraine
35M faithful

Ukraine

Europe

Ukraine is an ancient Orthodox Christian land whose faith dates to the Baptism of Rus' in 988. Today it is home to one of the world's largest Orthodox populations, served chiefly by the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Europe
Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church of Ukraine), with a large formerly-Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church in transition
Flag of United Kingdom
464K faithful

United Kingdom

Europe

Eastern Orthodoxy in the United Kingdom is a growing minority faith, organised as canonical diaspora jurisdictions led by the Greek Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, with vibrant Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Antiochian and other communities.

Europe
Canonical diaspora jurisdictions (minority Orthodox presence)
Region · № 04

North America.

Planted by Russian missionaries in Alaska; a mosaic of jurisdictions and converts across the continent.

2 countries
Flag of Canada
629K faithful

Canada

North America

Eastern Orthodoxy in Canada is a multi-ethnic minority tradition rooted in late-19th-century Slavic and Greek immigration, organized today through several canonical jurisdictions including the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, the OCA Archdiocese of Canada, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.

North America
Canonical diaspora jurisdictions in a minority-Orthodox country
Flag of United States
676K faithful

United States

North America

The United States is home to a vibrant, multi-ethnic Eastern Orthodox community rooted in the 1794 Russian mission to Alaska, now organized under numerous canonical jurisdictions coordinated by the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops.

North America2K churches
Canonical diaspora jurisdictions (including the autocephalous Orthodox Church in America)
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