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The '''Vicariate for Palestinian–Jordanian Communities in the USA''' is an [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] [[Vicariate (Eastern Orthodoxy)|vicariate]] in the United States under the [[Ecclesiastical jurisdiction|jurisdiction]] of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vicariate for the Palestinian/Jordanian Orthodox Christian Communities |url=https://www.goarch.org/-/vicariate-for-the-palestinian-jordanian-orthodox-christian-communities |access-date=2023-10-07 |publisher=Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America}}</ref> In 2010, there were 6,775 congregants in 9 churches.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Religion Census - 2010 |url=https://www.usreligioncensus.org/report1.php?year=2010}}</ref>

==History==
The [[Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem]] has a history in the United States dating back to the 1920s. In 2002, Archbishop [[Damaskinos (Gaganyaros)|Damaskinos of Jaffa]] was appointed as ''epitropos'' ([[vicar]]). These parishes remained under the Jerusalem patriarchate until 2007, when it decided to leave the jurisdictional scene in North America.<ref name=Herbel>{{cite book |author=Herbel, Oliver |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SZnAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA141 |title=Turning to Tradition: Converts and the Making of an American Orthodox Church |page=141 |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2014 | isbn=978-0-19-932495-8 |via=Google Books}}</ref>  

On August 5, 2008, the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]], which is an [[eparchy]] of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]], announced that the Constantinopolitan Church had agreed with the patriarchate of Jerusalem to transfer the Jerusalem parishes in America to a "Vicariate for Palestinian/Jordanian Communities in the USA" within the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople.<ref name=Herbel /> The vicar would operate under the authority of the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goarch.org/news/2008-08-05-decisiononcommunities |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415000946/http://www.goarch.org/news/2008-08-05-decisiononcommunities |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |title=Decisions on Some Palestinian and Jordanian Communities in the USA |publisher=Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |date=August 5, 2008}}</ref>

In 2008, there were 15 parishes involved: nine in California and one each in Washington state, Arizona, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Georgia.<ref name=objection>{{cite news |last=Kalmoukos |first=Theodore |url=http://archive.ocl.org/?id=17215 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009164855/http://archive.ocl.org/?id=17215 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 9, 2015 |title=Palestinian Priest Against New Vicariate |newspaper=[[National Post]] |date=17 August 2008}}</ref>

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[[Category:Dioceses of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]]
[[Category:Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem]]
[[Category:Jordanian-American culture]]
[[Category:Palestinian-American culture]]