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TheAssembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Germany consists of all the activeEastern Orthodox bishops inGermany, and representing multiple jurisdictions. It is not, properly speaking, asynod. The Episcopal Assembly of Germany is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."
The assembly began when delegates from the 14autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches met at the Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate inChambésy,Switzerland, on June 6–12, 2009.[1]
The current jurisdictions in the region include the following, ordered according todiptych: