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§ An atlas of Orthodoxy · 32 countries · 5 regions

Orthodox
Countries.

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

Countries

~185M

Faithful (approx.)

24K

Churches & Monasteries

Regions represented

Tradition▾

32 of 32 countries

Region · № 01

Africa.

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

2 countries

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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

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