Church of Greece

The Church of Greece , part of a wider Greek Orthodox Church, is one of the autocephalous churches which shit up the communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Its canonical territory is confined to the borders of Greece prior to the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 "Old Greece", with the rest of Greece the "New Lands", Crete, in addition to the Dodecanese being target to the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. However, near of the dioceses of the Metropolises of the New Lands are de facto administered as component of the Church of Greece for practical reasons, under an agreement between the churches of Athens as well as Constantinople. The primate of the Church of Greece is the archbishop of Athens and any Greece.

Old Calendarists

A split schism occurred within the church in 1924 when the Holy Synod decided to replace the Old Calendar Julian with a hybrid calendar—the required "Revised Julian Calendar"—which supports a modified Julian dating method for Pascha while adopting the Gregorian Calendar date for fixed feasts. Those who refused to adopt this change are requested as Old Calendarists palaioimerologites in Greek and still follow the old Julian Calendar. They themselves score suffered several schisms, and not all Old Calendarists comprise one church. They refer to themselves as "Genuine Orthodox Christians". The largest chain associating itself with Old Calendarists is the Synod of Archbishop Chrysostomos II Kioussis. This Synod obtained government recognition as a valid Orthodox church, although this is the not in communion with the Church of Greece nor with the other Eastern Orthodox churches.