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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa
Founder(s)	Apostle Mark
Autocephaly/Autonomy declared	Traditional
Autocephaly/Autonomy recognized	Traditional
Current primate	Pope Theodoros II
Headquarters	Alexandria, Egypt
Primary territory	Africa
Possessions abroad	none
Liturgical language(s)	Greek, Arab, French, English, local languages
Musical tradition	Byzantine Chant
Calendar	Revised Julian
Population estimate	250,000
Official website	Church of Alexandria

The Church of Alexandria is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Its primate is the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, the successor to the Apostle Mark the Evangelist, who founded the Church of Alexandria in the 1st century. It is one of the five ancient patriarchates of the early Church, called the Pentarchy.

History

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt about 332-331 BC he established the city of Alexandria, named after him, from which his Greek-speaking successors, the Ptolemy dynasty, ruled Egypt. Alexandria also had many Greek-speaking Jewish inhabitants, and it was here that the Old Testament scriptures were translated into Greek, the Septuagint version. During the first century BC the city, and Egypt generally passed under Roman rule.

St Mark, a disciple of St Peter evangelised Egypt in the middle of the first century. He probably arrived about AD 40, and met a martyr's death around AD 63. Little is known of the early history of the Church in Alexandria and Egypt, beyond a bare list of names of bishops. By the end of the second century, however, the church had begun to spread among the indigenous population, and the Scriptures and Liturgical texts were being translated into local languages.

Since the schism occurring as a result of the political and Christological controversies at the Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.), the portion of the Church of Alexandria loyal to Chalcedonian Christology has liturgically been Greek-speaking, the majority of its native (i.e., Coptic) population and their modern descendents becoming a part of the Coptic Orthodox Church (i.e., non-Chalcedonian).

The Church today

In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope Petros VII. During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he worked tirelessly to spread the Orthodox Faith in Arab nations and throughout Africa, raising up native clergy and encouraging the use of local languages in the liturgical life of the Church. Missions spread and thrived in Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar, Cameroon, and elsewhere across the African continent.

Particularly sensitive to the nature of Christian expansion into Muslim countries, His Beatitude worked to promote mutual understanding and respect between Orthodox Christians and Muslims. His efforts were ended as the result of a helicopter crash on September 11, 2004, in the Aegean Sea near Greece, killing him and several other clergy, including Bishop Nektarios of Madagascar, another bishop with a profound missionary vision.

Today, some 300,000 Orthodox Christians comprise the Patriarchate of Alexandria, the highest number since the Roman Empire. The current primate of the Church of Alexandria is His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.

The Episcopacy

Titular Metropolitans

His Excellency Porphyrios (Skikos), Metropolitan of Thebes

Titular Bishops

His Grace Nicholas (Boulaxis), Bishop of Nitria
His Grace Theodoros (Dridakis), Bishop of Babylon
His Grace Germanos (Galanis), Bishop of Damietta

Retired Bishops

His Eminence Panteleimon (Lampadarios), Metropolitan of Antinoe
His Grace Vasilios (Varvelis), Bishop of Arsinoe

Holy Metropolises and Bishoprics

Bishopric	Established	See	Jurisdiction
Metropolis of Carthage	1st c.	Tunis	Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara
Metropolis of Memphis	4th c.	Cairo	Egypt (Cairo)
Metropolis of Pelusium	4th c.	Port Said	Egypt (Port Said, Dakahlia, Damietta)
Metropolis of Leontopolis	4th c.	Ismailia	Egypt (Ismailia, Sharqia, Suez)
Metropolis of Aksum	4th c.	Addis-Abeba	Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia
Metropolis of Tripoli	1866	Tripoli	Libya
Metropolis of Ptolemais	1908	Minya	Egypt (Giza, Minya, Sohag, Asyut, Faiyum, Qena, Beni Suef, Aswan, Luxor, Red Sea, New Valley)
Metropolis of Nubia	1908	Khartoum	Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea
Metropolis of Hermopolis	1927	Tanta	Egypt (Arab-speaking communities)
Metropolis of Johannesburg	1927	Johannesburg	South Africa (Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West)
Metropolis of Nairobi	1958	Nairobi	Kenya
Metropolis of Kinshasa	1958	Kinshasa	Congo (Kinshasa, North Kivu, South Kivu, Congo Central, Kwilu, Ituri, South Ubangi, Tshopo, Maniema, Kwango, Upper Uele, Mongala, Mai-Ndombe, Equator, North Ubangi, Tshuapa, Lower Uele)
Metropolis of Cameroon	1959	Yaounde	Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Thomas and Prince
Metropolis of Zimbabwe	1964	Harare	Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique
Metropolis of Good Hope	1968	Cape Town	South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Northern Cape), Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Saint Helen, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha
Metropolis of Mwanza	1992	Mwanza	Tanzania (Mwanza, Mbeya, Kagera, Tabora, Morogoro, Kigoma, Dodoma, Mara, Geita, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Simiyu, Shinyanga, Manyara, Ruvuma, Singida, Rukwa, Iringa, Njombe, Katavi, Songwe)
Metropolis of Kampala	1994	Kampala	Uganda
Metropolis of Accra	1997	Accra	Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso
Metropolis of Antananarivo	1997	Antananarivo	Madagascar, Mayotte, The Comoros, The Mascarenes, Scattered Islands
Metropolis of Nigeria	1997	Lagos	Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Togo
Metropolis of Irinoupolis	1999	Dar es-Salaam	Tanzania (Dar es-Salaam, Tanga, Mtwara, Pwani, Lindi, West Zanzibar, North Pemba, South Pemba, North Zanzibar, South Zanzibar), Seychelles
Metropolis of Zambia	2001	Lusaka	Zambia, Malawi
Metropolis of Katanga	2006	Lubumbashi	Congo (Upper Katanga, Tanganyika, Upper Lomami, Lualaba)
Diocese of Mozambique	2006	Maputo	Mozambique
Metropolis of Burundi	2009	Bujumbura	Burundi, Rwanda
Metropolis of Botswana	2010	Gabarone	Botswana
Metropolis of Brazzaville	2010	Brazzaville	Congo (Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, Buenza, Mpumbu, Niadi, Plateau, Kuvete, Likuala, Lekumu, Kwilu, Sangha, West Kuvete), Gabon
Metropolis of Guinea	2010	Conakry	Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Cape Verde
Diocese of Kisumu	2015	Kisumu	Kenya (Kisumu, Kakamega, Bungoma, Kisii, Homa Bay, Migori, Siaya, Busia, Nyamira, Vihiga)
Diocese of Nyeri	2015	Nyeri	Kenya (Nyeri, Kiambu, Muranga, Nyandarua, Kirinyaga)
Diocese of Arusha	2016	Arusha	Tanzania (Arusha, Morogoro, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro, Manyara, Singida, Iringa)
Metropolis of Kananga	2018	Kananga	Congo (Kasai, Central Kasai, Eastern Kasai, Lomami, Sankuru)
Diocese of Goma	2018	Goma	Congo (North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema)
Diocese of Gulu	2018	Gulu	Uganda (Eastern, Northern)
Diocese of Kisangani	2018	Kisangani	Congo (Tshopo, Ituri, Upper Uele, Lower Uele)
Diocese of Malawi	2018	Malawi	Malawi
Diocese of Toliara	2018	Toliara	Madagascar (Atsimo-Andrefana, Upper Matsiatra, Vatovavy-Fitovinany, Atsimo-Atsinanana, Androy, Amoroni Mania, Anosy, Menabe, Ihorombe)
Diocese of Bukoba	2019	Bukoba	Tanzania (Kagera)
Diocese of Eldoret	2019	Eldoret	Kenya (Uasin Gishu)

External links

The Patriarchate of Alexandria (Official site)
Previous Patriarchs
History of the Patriarchate

Sources

Patriarchate of Alexandria website - Archdioceses
Patriarchate of Alexandria website - Dioceses
Eastern Christian Churches: Patriarchate of Alexandria by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar
The Patriarchate of Alexandria in 2021 by Markos Markos

Autocephalous and Autonomous Churches of Orthodoxy

Autocephalous Churches

Four Ancient Patriarchates: Constantinople · Alexandria · Antioch · Jerusalem
Russia · Serbia · Romania · Bulgaria · Georgia · Cyprus · Greece · Poland · Albania · Czech Lands and Slovakia · OCA* · Ukraine*

Autonomous Churches

Sinai · Finland · Estonia* · Japan* · China* · Ukraine*

The * designates a church whose autocephaly or autonomy is not universally recognized.

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+language=Greek, Arab, French, English, local languages|
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+The '''Church of Alexandria''' is one of the [[autocephaly|autocephalous]] [[Orthodox Church]]es.  Its [[primate]] is the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, the successor to the [[Apostle Mark|Apostle Mark the Evangelist]], who founded the Church of Alexandria in the 1st century.  It is one of the five ancient [[patriarchate]]s of the early [[Church]], called the ''[[Pentarchy]]''.
 == History ==
-Since the [[schism]] occurring as a result of the political and [[Christology|Christological]] controversies at the [[Fourth Ecumenical Council|Council of Chalcedon]] (451 A.D.), the portion of the Church of Alexandria loyal to Chalcedonian Christology has liturgically been Greek-speaking, the majority of its native (i.e., Coptic) population and their modern descendents becoming a part of the '''[[Church of Alexandria (Coptic)|Coptic Orthodox Church]]''' (i.e., [[Oriental Orthodox|non-Chalcedonian]]).
+When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt about 332-331 BC he established the city of Alexandria, named after him, from which his Greek-speaking successors, the Ptolemy dynasty, ruled Egypt. Alexandria also had many Greek-speaking Jewish inhabitants, and it was here that the Old Testament scriptures were translated into Greek, the [[Septuagint]] version. During the first century BC the city, and Egypt generally passed under Roman rule.
+St Mark, a disciple of [[Apostle Peter|St Peter]] evangelised Egypt in the middle of the first century. He probably arrived about AD 40, and met a martyr's death around AD 63. Little is known of the early history of the Church in Alexandria and Egypt, beyond a bare list of names of bishops. By the end of the second century, however, the church had begun to spread among the indigenous population, and the Scriptures and Liturgical texts were being translated into local languages.
+Since the [[schism]] occurring as a result of the political and [[Christology|Christological]] controversies at the [[Fourth Ecumenical Council|Council of Chalcedon]] (451 A.D.), the portion of the Church of Alexandria loyal to Chalcedonian [[Christology]] has liturgically been Greek-speaking, the majority of its native (i.e., Coptic) population and their modern descendents becoming a part of the '''[[Church of Alexandria (Coptic)|Coptic Orthodox Church]]''' (i.e., [[Oriental Orthodox|non-Chalcedonian]]).
 == The Church today ==
-In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope [[Petros VII (Papapetrou) of Alexandria|Petros VII]].  During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he worked tirelessly to spread the Orthodox Christian [[faith]] in Arab nations and throughout Africa, raising up native [[clergy]] and encouraging the use of local languages in the liturgical life of the Church.  Missions spread and thrived in Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar, Cameroon, and elsewhere across the African continent.
+In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope [[Petros VII (Papapetrou) of Alexandria|Petros VII]].  During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he worked tirelessly to spread the Orthodox Faith in Arab nations and throughout Africa, raising up native [[clergy]] and encouraging the use of local languages in the liturgical life of the Church.  Missions spread and thrived in Kenya, Uganda, [[Madagascar]], [[Cameroon]], and elsewhere across the African continent.
 Particularly sensitive to the nature of Christian expansion into [[Islam|Muslim]] countries, His Beatitude worked to promote mutual understanding and respect between Orthodox Christians and Muslims.  His efforts were ended as the result of a helicopter crash on [[September 11]], 2004, in the Aegean Sea near Greece, killing him and several other clergy, including Bishop [[Nektarios (Kellis) of Madagascar|Nektarios of Madagascar]], another bishop with a profound missionary vision.
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 ==The Episcopacy==
 ===The Holy Synod===
-*His Beatitude [[Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria|Theodoros II]], Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa
+*His Beatitude [[Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria|Theodoros II]], Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa
-*His Eminence Elder [[Paul (Lyngris) of Memphis|Paul (Lyngris)]], Metropolitan of Memphis
+*His Eminence [[Makarios (Tillyrides) of Nairobi|Makarios (Tillyrides)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Nairobi|Nairobi and Kenya]]
-*His Eminence Elder [[Dionysios (Hatzivasiliou) of Leontopolis|Dionysios (Hatzivasiliou)]], Metropolitan of Leontopolis
+*His Eminence [[Seraphim (Kykkotis) of Zimbabwe|Seraphim (Kykkotis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe-Angola and Southern Africa]]
-*His Eminence Elder [[Petros (Giakoumelos) of Aksum|Petros (Giakoumelos)]], Metropolitan of Aksum
+*His Eminence [[Alexandros (Gianniris) of Nigeria|Alexandros (Gianniris)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Nigeria|Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea]]
-*His Eminence [[Makarios (Tillyrides) of Kenya|Makarios (Tyliirides)]], Metropolitan of Kenya
+*His Eminence [[Theophylaktos (Tzoumerkas) of Tripoli|Theophylaktos (Tzoumerkas)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Tripoli|Tripoli and Lybia]]
-*His Eminence [[Jonah (Lwanga) of Kampala|Jonah (Lwanga)]], Metropolitan of Kampala and All Uganda
+*His Eminence [[Sergios (Kykkotis) of the Cape of Good Hope|Sergios (Kykkotis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope|Good Hope and All Natal and Dependencies]]
-*His Eminence [[Seraphim (Iakovou) of Johannesburg|Seraphim (Iakovou)]], Metropolitan of Johannesburg and Pretoria
+*His Eminence [[Ieronymos (Muzeeyi) of Mwanza|Ieronymos (Muzeeyi)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Mwanza|Mwanza and Western Tanzania]]
-*His Eminence [[Alexandros (Gianniris) of Nigeria|Alexander (Gianniris)]], Metropolitan of Nigeria
+*His Eminence [[George (Vladimirou) of Guinea|George (Vladimirou)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Guinea|Guinea and the African Coast]]
-*His Eminence [[Theophylaktos (Tzoumerkas) of Tripoli|Theophylaktos (Tzoumerkas)]], Metropolitan of Tripolis
+*His Eminence [[Nicholas II (Antoniou) of Hermopolis|Nicholas II (Antoniou)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Hermopolis|Hermopolis and Egypt Primum]]
-*His Eminence Sergios, Metropolitan of the Cape of Good Hope
+*His Eminence [[Dimitrios (Zaharengas) of Irinoupolis|Dimitrios (Zaharengas)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Irinoupolis|Irinoupolis and Eastern Tanzania and Seychelles]]
-*His Eminence [[Alexios (Leontaritis) of Carthage|Alexios]], Metropolitan of Carthage
+*His Eminence [[Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Johannesburg|Damaskinos (Papandreou)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Johannesburg|Johannesburg-Pretoria and All South Africa]]
-*His Eminence Ieronymos, Metropolitan of Mwanza
+*His Eminence [[Ignatios (Sennis) of Antananarivo|Ignatios (Sennis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Antananarivo|Antananarivo-Northern Madagascar and Indian Islands]]
-*His Eminence [[Kallinikos (Pippas) of Pilousion|Kallinikos (Pippas)]], Metropolitan of Pilousion
+*His Eminence [[Emmanuel (Kiagias) of Ptolemais|Emmanuel (Kiagias)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Ptolemais|Ptolemais and Upper Egypt]]
-*His Eminence [[Proterios (Pavlopoulos) of Ptolemais|Proterios (Pavlopoulos)]], Metropolitan of Ptolemais
+*His Eminence [[Gregory (Stergiou) of Cameroon|Gregory (Stergiou)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Cameroon|Cameroon and Central Africa]]
-*His Eminence [[George (Vladimirou) of Zimbabwe|George (Vladimirou)]], Metropolitan of Zimbabwe
+*His Eminence [[Gabriel (Raftopoulos) of Leontopolis|Gabriel (Raftopoulos)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Leontopolis|Leontopolis and Augustamnica Secunda and the Red Sea]]
-*His Eminence Nicholas, Metropolitan of Ermoupolis
+*His Eminence [[Nikodemos II (Priangelos) of Memphis|Nikodemos II (Priangelos)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Memphis|Memphis and Egypt]]
-*His Eminence [[Dimitrios (Zaharengas) of Irinoupolis|Dimitrios (Zaharengas)]], Metropolitan of Irinoupolis
+*His Eminence [[Meletios (Kamiloudes) of Katanga|Meletios (Kamiloudes)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Katanga|Katanga and Mainland Africa]]
-*His Eminence [[Ignatios (Madenlides) of Central Africa|Ignatios (Madenlides)]], Metropolitan of Central Africa
+*His Eminence [[Gennadios (Stantzios) of Botswana|Gennadios (Stantzios)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Botswana|Botswana and the Kalahari]]
-*His Eminence [[Emmanuel (Kiagias) of Khartoum|Emmanuel (Kiagias)]], Metropolitan of Khartoum and Sudan, Exarch of All Sudan
+*His Eminence [[Savvas (Heimonetos) of Nubia|Savvas (Heimonetos)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Nubia|Nubia and All Sudan and Eritrea]]
-*His Eminence [[Gregory (Stergiou) of Cameroon|Gregory (Stergiou)]], Metropolitan of Cameroon, Exarch of Central Africa
+*His Eminence [[Ioannis (Tsaftaridis) of Zambia|Ioannis (Tsaftaridis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Zambia|Zambia and Middle Africa]]
+*His Eminence [[Panteleimon (Arathymos) of Brazzaville|Panteleimon (Arathymos)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Brazzaville|Brazzaville-Gabon and Atlantic Africa]]
+*His Eminence [[Innocent (Byakatonda) of Burundi|Innocent (Byakatonda)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Burundi|Burundi-Rwanda and Inner Africa]]
+*His Eminence [[Meletios (Koumanis) of Carthage|Meletios (Koumanis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Carthage|Carthage and North Africa]]
+*His Eminence [[Daniel (Biazis) of Aksum|Daniel (Biazis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Aksum|Aksum and All Ethiopia]]
+*His Eminence [[Theodosios (Tsitsivos) of Kananga|Theodosios (Tsitsivos)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Kananga|Kananga and Equatorial Africa]]
+*His Eminence [[Petros II (Parginos) of Accra|Petros II (Parginos)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Accra|Accra and West Africa]]
-===Diocesan Bishops===
+=== Auxiliary Metropolitans ===
-*His Grace [[Ioakeim (Kontobas) of Zambia|Ioakeim (Kontobas)]], Bishop of Zambia
+*His Eminence [[Athanasios (Kykkotis) of Cyrene|Athanasios (Kykkotis)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Cyrene|Cyrene and the Libyan Sea]]
-*His Grace [[Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Ghana|Damaskinos (Papandreou)]], Bishop of Ghana
+*His Eminence [[Theodoros (Dimitriou) of Heliopolis|Theodoros (Dimitriou)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Heliopolis|Heliopolis and Middle Egypt]]
-*His Grace [[Ignatios (Sennis) of Madagascar|Ignatios (Sennis)]], Bishop of Madagascar
+*His Eminence [[Narkissos (Gammoh) of Naucratis|Narkissos (Gammoh)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Naucratis|Naucratis and the Egyptian Nile]]
-*His Grace [[Meletios (Kamiloudes) of Kolwezi|Meletios (Kamiloudes)]], Bishop of Kolwezi
-*His Grace [[Theodoros (Dimitriou) of Mozambique|Theodoros (Dimitriou)]], Bishop of Mozambique
-===Auxiliary Bishops===
+=== Diocesan Bishops ===
-*His Grace Athanasios of Cyrene
+*His Grace [[Neophytos (Kongai) of Nyeri|Neophytos (Kongai)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Nyeri|Nyeri-Mount Kenya]]
-*His Grace Gabriel of Mareotis
+*His Grace [[Agathonikos (Nikolaidis) of Arusha|Agathonikos (Nikolaidis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Arusha|Arusha-Central Tanzania]]
-*His Grace Spyridon of Kanopou
+*His Grace [[Sylvestros (Kisitu) of Gulu|Sylvestros (Kisitu)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Gulu|Gulu-Eastern Uganda]]
-*His Grace Nikodemos of Nitria
+*His Grace [[Photios (Hatziantoniou) of Malawi|Photios (Hatziantoniou)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Malawi|Malawi]]
-*His Grace Gennadios of Nilopolis
+*His Grace [[Prodromos (Katsoulis) of Toliara|Prodromos (Katsoulis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Toliara|Toliara-Southern Madagascar]]
+*His Grace [[Markos (Theodosis) of Kisumu|Markos (Theodosis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Kisumu|Kisumu-Western Kenya]]
-===Titular Archbishops===
+=== Titular Metropolitans ===
-*His Excellency Theoklitos of Helioupolis
+*His Excellency [[Porphyrios (Skikos) of Thebes|Porphyrios (Skikos)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Thebes|Thebes]]
-*His Excellency Philemon of Karvasos
-*His Excellency Ioakeim of Tamiathus
+===Titular Bishops===
-*His Excellency Porfyrios of Thivais
+*His Grace [[Nicholas (Boulaxis) of Nitria|Nicholas (Boulaxis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Nitria|Nitria]]
-*His Excellency Kyrillos of Nafkratis
+*His Grace [[Theodoros (Dridakis) of Babylon|Theodoros (Dridakis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Babylon|Babylon]]
+*His Grace [[Germanos (Galanis) of Damietta|Germanos (Galanis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Damietta|Damietta]]
 ===Retired Bishops===
-*His Grace Panteleimon of Antinoe
+*His Eminence [[Panteleimon (Lampadarios) of Antinoe|Panteleimon (Lampadarios)]], Metropolitan of [[Archdiocese of Antinoe|Antinoe]]
-*His Grace Petros of Nikopolis
+*His Grace [[Vasilios (Varvelis) of Arsinoe|Vasilios (Varvelis)]], Bishop of [[Diocese of Arsinoe in Arcadia|Arsinoe]]
+==Holy Metropolises and Bishoprics==
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+ !class=unsortable|Bishopric!!data-sort-type="number"|Established!!See!!Jurisdiction
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Carthage|Metropolis of Carthage]]  ||data-sort-value="0"|1st c.||Tunis||'''Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Memphis|Metropolis of Memphis]]    ||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Cairo||'''Egypt''' (Cairo)
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Pelusium|Metropolis of Pelusium]]  ||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Port Said||'''Egypt''' (Port Said, Dakahlia, Damietta)
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Leontopolis|Metropolis of Leontopolis]]  ||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Ismailia||'''Egypt''' (Ismailia, Sharqia, Suez)
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Aksum|Metropolis of Aksum]]  ||data-sort-value="300"|4th c.||Addis-Abeba||'''Ethiopia''', '''Djibouti''', '''Somalia'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Tripoli|Metropolis of Tripoli]]    || 1866 || Tripoli    ||'''Libya'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Ptolemais|Metropolis of Ptolemais]]|| 1908 || Minya      ||'''Egypt''' (Giza, Minya, Sohag, Asyut, Faiyum, Qena, Beni Suef, Aswan, Luxor, Red Sea, New Valley)
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Nubia|Metropolis of Nubia]]  || 1908 || Khartoum         ||'''Sudan''', '''South Sudan''', '''Eritrea'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Hermopolis|Metropolis of Hermopolis]]    || 1927 || Tanta||'''Egypt''' (Arab-speaking communities)
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Johannesburg|Metropolis of Johannesburg]]|| 1927 || Johannesburg      ||'''South Africa''' (Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West)
+ |-
+ |[[Metropolis of Nairobi]]   || 1958 || Nairobi           ||'''Kenya'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Kinshasa|Metropolis of Kinshasa]]  || 1958 || Kinshasa   ||'''Congo''' (Kinshasa, North Kivu, South Kivu, Congo Central, Kwilu, Ituri, South Ubangi, Tshopo, Maniema, Kwango, Upper Uele, Mongala, Mai-Ndombe, Equator, North Ubangi, Tshuapa, Lower Uele)
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Cameroon|Metropolis of Cameroon]]  || 1959 || Yaounde    ||'''Cameroon''', '''Chad''', '''Central African Republic''', '''Equatorial Guinea''', '''Saint Thomas and Prince'''
+ |-
+ |[[Metropolis of Zimbabwe]]  || 1964 || Harare            ||'''Zimbabwe''', '''Angola''', '''Mozambique'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope|Metropolis of Good Hope]]||1968||Cape Town  ||'''South Africa''' (KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Northern Cape), '''Namibia''', '''Eswatini''', '''Lesotho''', '''Saint Helen''', '''Ascension''', '''Tristan da Cunha'''
+ |-
+ |[[Metropolis of Mwanza]]    || 1992 || Mwanza            ||'''Tanzania''' (Mwanza, Mbeya, Kagera, Tabora, Morogoro, Kigoma, Dodoma, Mara, Geita, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Simiyu, Shinyanga, Manyara, Ruvuma, Singida, Rukwa, Iringa, Njombe, Katavi, Songwe)
+ |-
+ |[[Metropolis of Kampala]]   || 1994 || Kampala           ||'''Uganda'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Accra|Metropolis of Accra]]  || 1997 || Accra            ||'''Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Antananarivo|Metropolis of Antananarivo]]||1997 || Antananarivo      ||'''Madagascar''', '''Mayotte''', '''The Comoros''', '''The Mascarenes''', '''Scattered Islands'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Nigeria|Metropolis of Nigeria]]    || 1997 || Lagos      ||'''Nigeria''', '''Niger''', '''Benin''', '''Togo'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Irinoupolis|Metropolis of Irinoupolis]]  || 1999 || Dar es-Salaam     ||'''Tanzania''' (Dar es-Salaam, Tanga, Mtwara, Pwani, Lindi, West Zanzibar, North Pemba, South Pemba, North Zanzibar, South Zanzibar), '''Seychelles'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Zambia|Metropolis of Zambia]]      || 2001 || Lusaka     ||'''Zambia''', '''Malawi'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Katanga|Metropolis of Katanga]]    || 2006 || Lubumbashi ||'''Congo''' (Upper Katanga, Tanganyika, Upper Lomami, Lualaba)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Mozambique]]   || 2006 || Maputo     ||'''Mozambique'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Burundi|Metropolis of Burundi]]    || 2009 || Bujumbura  ||'''Burundi''', '''Rwanda'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Botswana|Metropolis of Botswana]]  || 2010 || Gabarone   ||'''Botswana'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Brazzaville|Metropolis of Brazzaville]]  || 2010 || Brazzaville       ||'''Congo''' (Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, Buenza, Mpumbu, Niadi, Plateau, Kuvete, Likuala, Lekumu, Kwilu, Sangha, West Kuvete), '''Gabon'''
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Guinea|Metropolis of Guinea]]      || 2010 || Conakry    ||'''Guinea''', '''Sierra Leone''', '''Liberia''', '''Guinea Bissau''', '''Gambia''', '''Senegal''', '''Cape Verde'''
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Kisumu]] || 2015 || Kisumu     ||'''Kenya''' (Kisumu, Kakamega, Bungoma, Kisii, Homa Bay, Migori, Siaya, Busia, Nyamira, Vihiga)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Nyeri]]  || 2015 || Nyeri      ||'''Kenya''' (Nyeri, Kiambu, Muranga, Nyandarua, Kirinyaga)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Arusha]] || 2016 || Arusha     ||'''Tanzania''' (Arusha, Morogoro, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro, Manyara, Singida, Iringa)
+ |-
+ |[[Archdiocese of Kananga|Metropolis of Kananga]]    || 2018 || Kananga    ||'''Congo''' (Kasai, Central Kasai, Eastern Kasai, Lomami, Sankuru)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Goma]]   || 2018 || Goma       ||'''Congo''' (North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Gulu]]   || 2018 || Gulu       ||'''Uganda''' (Eastern, Northern)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Kisangani]]    || 2018 || Kisangani  ||'''Congo''' (Tshopo, Ituri, Upper Uele, Lower Uele)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Malawi]] || 2018 || Malawi     ||'''Malawi'''
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Toliara]]|| 2018 || Toliara    ||'''Madagascar''' (Atsimo-Andrefana, Upper Matsiatra, Vatovavy-Fitovinany, Atsimo-Atsinanana, Androy, Amoroni Mania, Anosy, Menabe, Ihorombe)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Bukoba]] || 2019 || Bukoba     ||'''Tanzania''' (Kagera)
+ |-
+ |[[Diocese of Eldoret]]|| 2019 || Eldoret    ||'''Kenya''' (Uasin Gishu)
+ |}
 == See also ==
 *[[Orthodoxy in Africa]]
+*[[List of Patriarchs of Alexandria]]
 ==External links==
-*[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandria.org/ The Patriarchate of Alexandria] (Official site)
+*[http://www.patriarchateofalexandria.com/index.php?lang=en The Patriarchate of Alexandria] (Official site)
-*[http://www.greece.org/gopatalex/SA/ Archbishopric of Johannesburg and Pretoria]
+*[http://www.patriarchateofalexandria.com/index.php?module=content&cid=001003 Previous Patriarchs]
-*[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandria.org/History/list_patr.htm List of Patriarchs]
+*[http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/church_history/makarios_patriarchate_alexandria.html History of the Patriarchate]
-*[http://www.greekorthodox-alexandria.org/History/hist_patr.htm History of the Patriarchate]
-*[http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-bodypg-us.aspx?eccpageID=14&IndexView=toc Eastern Christian Churches: Patriarchate of Alexandria] by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar
+==Sources==
+*[http://www.patriarchateofalexandria.com/index.php?module=content&cid=004001 Patriarchate of Alexandria website - Archdioceses]
+*[http://www.patriarchateofalexandria.com/index.php?module=content&cid=004002 Patriarchate of Alexandria website - Dioceses]
+*[http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=14&pagetypeID=9&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 Eastern Christian Churches: Patriarchate of Alexandria] by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar
+*[http://markmarkou.sites.sch.gr/2021/alex2021.htm The Patriarchate of Alexandria in 2021] by Markos Markos
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+[[Category:Orthodoxy in Africa|Alexandria]]
 [[Category:Jurisdictions|Alexandria]]

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