And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. – Acts 11:26 KJV
Below is a map of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch.
- Each small red dot represents an archdiocese (the map is mislabeled as diocese).
- Purple lines are equidistant between each Archdiocese’s primary city, these lines do not represent actual archdiocese boundaries, merely an estimate.
- Antioch (Antakya in Turkish) is delineated with a large red dot but does not have any administrative function in the modern day Patriarchate. The Patriarchical city was moved to Damascus in the 14th century.
- Black lines delineate national boundaries
- Cyprus is not part of the Antiochian Patriarchate
- The Jerusalem Patriarchate has authority over Palestine and Jordan
- The American Archdiocese covers all of North America when many of these Archdioceses in Syria and Lebanon are half the size of Spokane County
- For comparison, there might be 360 parishes in Lebanon, and 450-600 in Syria when the American Archdiocese has 270.
- Besides the Archdioceses in the Levant, the Antiochian Patriarchate has the following Archdioceses
- 4 in Latin America: Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil
- 1 in North America
- 3 in Europe
- 1 in Oceania