Metropolis of Chicago | |
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Personnel | |
Metropolitan | Nathanael (Symeonides) |
Cathedral | Annunciation Cathedral of Chicago |
Geography | |
Location | Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota Northern Indiana, and Eastern Missouri, United States |
Vital Statistics | |
Total Parishes | 61 |
Total Population | ~250.000[1] |
Website: | chicago |
The Metropolis of Chicago is a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in the North-Central Midwest, United States, with its see city of Chicago. The mother church of the Metropolis is Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago.
On 7 February 2018, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople unanimously elected Nathanael Symeonides as the metropolitan of Chicago, succeeding Metropolitan Iakovos. He was ordained a bishop on 17 March 2018, in the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, New York City, and enthroned on 24 March 2018 in the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Chicago).[2]
The Metropolis of Chicago consists of thirty-four parishes in Illinois, with another twenty-four parishes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, northern Indiana, and eastern and central Missouri. The general offices of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago are located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.