Metropolis of Boston

The Metropolis of Boston is a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in the United States of America, under the jurisdiction of the Church of Constantinople. The metropolis includes the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and part of Connecticut.

History

Prior to the establishment of metropolises as sub-organizations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the New England area was designated in 1968 the Third Archdiocese District of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America. In 1979, the archdiocese was re-organized under a decree of the Ecumenical Patriarchate into a number of dioceses of which the Diocese of Boston replaced the 3rd district.

In 1996, the Archdiocese of North and South America was split into four separate archdioceses: those of America, Canada, Central America, and South America. With the establishment of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the title of the dioceses was changed to metropolises and the Diocese of Boston became the Metropolis of Boston in December 2002.

Parishes and Monasteries

There are sixty three parishes[1] within the metropolis.

Ruling hierarchs

The following are administrating hierarchs of the Metropolis of Boston and its predecessor organizations:

Bishop Joachim (Alexopoulos) 1923 - 1930
Bishop Athenagoras (Kavadas) 1938 - 1949
Bishop Ezekiel (Tsoukalas) of Nazianzus 1950 - 1954

Third District

Bishop Athenagoras (Kokkinakis) of Eleia 1954 - 1960
Bishop Meletios (Tripodakis) of Christianoupolis 1961 - 1962
Bishop Gerasimos (Papadopoulos) of Abydos 1962 - 1967
Bishop Demetrios (Makris) of Olympus 1968 - 1973
Bishop Iakovos (Garmatis) of Apameia 1974 - 1978

Diocese of Boston

Bishop Anthimos (Drakonakis) 1979 - 1983
Bishop Methodius (Tournas) 1983 - 2002