Church of Greece

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The Church of Greece (Greek: Ἐκκλησία τῆς Ἑλλάδος, romanized: Ekklēsía tē̂s Helládos, Greek pronunciation: [ekliˈsi.a tis eˈlaðos]), is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox church and one of the churches within the communion of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Its canonical territory is confined to the borders of Greece prior to the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 ("Old Greece"). The rest of Greece (the "New Lands", Crete, and the Dodecanese) is under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. However, most dioceses of the Metropolises of the New Lands are de facto administered as part of the Church of Greece for practical reasons, under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople. The primate of the Church of Greece is the archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

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