Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the fifteen to seventeen autocephalous churches that together compose the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Wikipedia
Founder: Andrew the Apostle
Independence: 330 AD from the Metropolis of Heraclea
Bishops: 125 (73 acting, 52 titular)
Parishes: 525 (in the United States)
Primate: Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I