This directory gives an overview as to how the Eastern Orthodox Church is structured. We do not enter the unholy discussion of who is recognizing whom or who considers whom as canonical.
 
By virtue of the same creed, Canons (church law) and apostolic lineage (Apostolic Succession) all Orthodox are in communion. Whether some may exercise or recognize this right or not is irrelevant or subjective.
 
 
Patriarchates
Ranked in order of seniority
 

1. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
2. Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria
3. Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
4. Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
5. Russian Orthodox Church

1. Serbian Orthodox Church
2. Romanian Orthodox Church
3. Bulgarian Orthodox Church
4. Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
5. Patriarchat Orthodoxe des Nations
6. Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate

 
Autocephalous Archbishoprics
 

1. Church of Cyprus
2. Church of Greece
3. Albanian Orthodox Church
4. Polish Orthodox Church
5. Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
6. Orthodox Church in America

 
 
Autonomous (independent) Orthodox Jurisdictions

• Self-governing Monastic Community of Mount Athos
• Church of Crete
• Finnish Orthodox Church
• Korean Orthodox Church
• Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church
• Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Churches in Western Europe

• Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

• Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai

• Belarusian Orthodox Church
• Latvian Orthodox Church
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
• Moldovan Orthodox Church
• Japanese Orthodox Church
• Chinese Orthodox Church
• Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia under the Serbian Orthodox Church

• Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric under the Romanian Orthodox Church

• Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia
• Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas

 
 
Orthodox churches with limited self-government but without autonomy
under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
 

• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy
• Exarchate of the Philippines
• American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA

   

Traditional Orthodox Jurisdictions
 
     - Greek and Russian Jurisdictions
 

• Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) (1924-2014; merged with Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece)
• Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church
• Serbian True Orthodox Church
• Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
• Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles

 
    - Slavic:
 

• Old Believers
• Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece
• Russian True Orthodox Church
• Russian Orthodox Church in America
• Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
• Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

 
 
Apostolic Orthodox Jurisdictions
 

• Armenian Apostolic Church

 
Uncategorized Ethnic Jurisdictions
 

• Abkhazian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Alternative synod
• Croatian Orthodox Church (1942–1945)
• Orthodox Church in Italy
• Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric
• Montenegrin Orthodox Church
• Turkish Orthodox Church

 
 
Oriental Orthodox Jurisdictions
 
   Armenian Orthodox

■     Armenian Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin (Catholicosate of All Armenians)
□        Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
□        Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul
□        Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem
■     Armenian Catholicosate Of The Great House Of Cilicia
□        Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America
 
Coptic Orthodox Church (Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt)
 
■     Coptic Orthodox Church - Archdiocese of North America
□        British Orthodox Church

Eritrean Orthodox Church [No online site]
 
Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Orthodox

■     Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North and South America
■     Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church   

Syrian (Antiochnian) Orthodox
 
■     Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
□        Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church for the Eastern United States

Autonomous Syrian Orthodox Churches      
 Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America   

Malankara Orthodox Church (Catholicate of the East)
■     Malankara Orthodox Church (Catholicate of the East)
■     Malankara Orthodox Church of India, Diocese of America
■     Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church American Diocese
   
Oriental Orthodox-Tradition: Independent Churches  

• Apostolic Christian Church of the East [No online site]
  

• Apostolic Orthodox Church  
  
• Apostolic Orthodox Church in America [No online site]
  

 Syro-Malankar Orthodox Jurisdictions
■     Independent Syrian Church (Thozhiyoor)
■     Mar Thoma Church