Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America

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The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) is an Eastern Orthodox organization designed to help cooperation among the several Eastern Orthodox Christian jurisdictions to be found in the Americas. It acts as a clearinghouse for educational, charitable, and missionary work in the Americas.

The members of SCOBA are the archbishops, metropolitan bishops, and bishops of the Orthodox Churches in North and South America that are in communion with the four ancient Greek Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey), Antioch (now in Damascus, Syria), Alexandria (Egypt), and Jerusalem, and those that are in communion with them. A number of the member jurisdictions are canonically subject to the Patriarch of Constantinople.

The current list of jurisdictions is

Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America (a diocese under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, not to be confused with the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America, which is an Archdiocese within the OCA)
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (an autonomous archdiocese of the Antiochian Patriarchate)
Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church (a diocese of the Bulgarian Patriarchate)
Carpatho Russian Orthodox Diocese in the USA (a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (an archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)
Orthodox Church in America (an autocephalous church)
Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America and Canada (an archdiocese of the Romanian Patriarchate)
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada (an archdiocese of the Serbian Patriarchate)
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)

The main agencies of SCOBA along with their dates of establishment are