Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota Northern Indiana, and Eastern Missouri, United States
Vital Statistics
Total Parishes
61
Total Population
~250.000[1]
Website:
chicago.goarch.org
The Metropolis of Chicago is a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in the North-Central Midwest, United States, with its see city of Chicago. The mother church of the Metropolis is Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago.
On 7 February 2018, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople unanimously elected Nathanael Symeonides as the metropolitan of Chicago, succeeding Metropolitan Iakovos. He was ordained a bishop on 17 March 2018, in the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, New York City, and enthroned on 24 March 2018 in the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Chicago).[2]
The Metropolis of Chicago consists of thirty-four parishes in Illinois, with another twenty-four parishes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, northern Indiana, and eastern and central Missouri. The general offices of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago are located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
^Pappas, Gregory (2015-11-29). "Chicago's Greek Orthodox Metropolis Wants the World to Recognize Annihilation of Middle East's Christianity as "Genocide"". The Pappas Post. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
^"Metropolitan of Chicago | The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago". Metropolis of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2022-02-21. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
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