Metropolitan of Greek Orthodox Metropolis of France | |
|---|---|
| Bishopric | |
 St. Stephen's Cathedral, Paris | |
| Location | |
| Territory | France |
| Metropolitan | Dimitrios (Ploumis)[1] |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | c. 60 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Rite | Byzantine Music:Byzantine chant,Russian chant Calendar:Revised Julian,Julian |
| Established | 1963 |
| Website | |
| https://mgro.fr | |
TheMetropolis of France, or theGreek Orthodox Metropolis of France (French:Métropole grecque orthodoxe de France,Greek:Μητρόπολη Γαλλίας,romanized: Mitropoli Gallias), is a diocese of theEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople established in 1963. It comprises theEastern Orthodox parishes and monasteries in France.
Historically, its congregation mainly consisted of people ofGreek descent, but following the disestablishment of the Paris-basedPatriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of the Russian Tradition in Western Europe within the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in November 2018, a significant number of the parishes of the former Exarchate have joined the Metropolis while retaining their Russian liturgical tradition.[2][3]
The diocese was established on 5 February 1963 and at the time comprised the Greek Orthodox parishes in France,Belgium,Luxembourg,Spain, andPortugal. Metropolitan Meletios Karabinis (1914–1993) was appointed as its primate on 22 October 1963 and remained in charge of the Metropolis until his resignation for health reasons on 9 June 1988.
In August 1969, the Greek parishes in Belgium and Luxemburg were incorporated into a newly establishedMetropolis of Belgium. Likewise, in 2003 the parishes in Spain and Portugal were incorporated into theMetropolis of Spain and Portugal.
Metropolitan Emmanuel Adamakis has been in charge of the Metropolis since 20 January 2003.
The diocese currently has two assistant bishops: Irineos Avramidis and Maxim Paphilis.
In November 2019, it was officially re-affirmed that the parishes and communities, formerly in the jurisdiction the disbanded Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe (the Ecumenical Patriarchate), which had joined the Metropolis of France, would be grouped into the "vicariate of Russian tradition of the Metropolis of France" in January 2020.[4][5][6]
The metropolis is organized in three geographical entities: