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The first recorded organised Greek Orthodox community in Great Britain England was established in 1670, by a group of 100 Greek refugees from Mani. The authorities granted permission to build a church in 1677There were also theologians, students, to the Archbishop of Samoscoffee shop owners, who had originally travelled to London to have one of his books publishedtraders and sailors. The church Their priest was confiscated in 1684 and handed over to Huguenot refugees from France—much to the fury of the Greek archbishopDaniel Boulgaris, who wrote a furious pamphlet which critisised this move. During the next 150 years, also seems to have taken the community had initiative to worship in the Imperial Russian Embassy. Finally, in 1837, an autonomous community was set up in Finsbury Park in London. The first new church was built in 1850, on London Street in the City. In 1877, gain permission from the Church Bishop of the Holy Wisdom was constructed in London, in order to cope with the build a permanent church for his growing influx of Orthodox immigrants to the United Kingdomflock. By the outbreak of the First World War, there His efforts were large Orthodox communities boosted in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Liverpool, each focused on its own church. The issue of how these significant communities were to be governed was not resolved until 1922, when 1676 by the [[Church arrival of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarch]] Meletios Metaxakis created the [[Diocese]] Archbishop of Thyateira—named after the famous See of Thyateira in Asia Minor. Based in LondonSamos, this diocese had jurisdiction over all Western Europe. The Second World War and its aftermath saw a large expansion amongst the Orthodox Communities of Europe, necessitating the establishment of new dioceses in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. == Current situation == Today, there are over 100 Orthodox Communities in the United Kingdom. The Archdiocese comes under the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch of ConstantinopleJoseph Georgerines, who in turn has authority over four [[bishop]]s and hundreds of [[priest]]s and [[deacon]]s. As is traditional within the Orthodox Churchhad originally travelled to London to publish his ''Anthologion'', “for the bishops have a considerable degree use of [[autonomy]] within the Archdiocese. ==See also==*[[Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia]]*[[Theodoritos (Polyzogopoulos) of Nazianzos]] ==External links==*[http://www.nostos.com/church Eastern Greek Orthodox Church in Great Britain]*[http://orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/constantinople/great_britain/current.htm#gregorios_arch_thyateira His Eminence Gregorios, Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain] from the Orthodox Research Institute [[Category:Dioceses]][[Category:Jurisdictions]]