Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas

The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) is an Eastern Orthodox organization designed to help cooperation among the canonical 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 ancient Greek Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey), Antioch (now in Damascus, Syria), Alexandria (Egypt), Jerusalem and the Moscow Patriarchate and those that are in communion with them.

Jurisdictions

* 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)
* American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)
* Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (an autonomous archdiocese of the Antiochian Patriarchate)
* Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church Diocese of America, Canada and Australia (a diocese of the Bulgarian Patriarchate)
* Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (an archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)
* Orthodox Church in America (the only autocephalous Orthodox church in North America)
* 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)

Agencies

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

* The Orthodox Christian Education Commission (OCEC), 1960 [http://www.orthodoxed.org]
* The Eastern Orthodox Committee on Scouting (EOCS), 1960 [http://www.eocs.org]
* The Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) 1965, 2001 [http://www.ocf.net]
* International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), 1992
* The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), 1994 [http://www.ocmc.org]
* The Orthodox Christian Network (OCN), 2003 [http://www.receive.org]

See also

* List of Orthodox jurisdictions in North America
* Archbishop of America

External links

* [http://www.forministry.com/USMTAMOCCSAOCS/SomethingAboutSCOBAandbeingCanonical.dsp Criticism of SCOBA]
* [http://www.rbsocc.org/message.html Another criticism of SCOBA]
* [http://www.scoba.us/ SCOBA's website]
* [http://www.goarch.org/en/archdiocese/organizations/scoba.asp SCOBA members]
* [http://www.oca.org/ocscoba.asp?SID=8 SCOBA] on the website of the [http://www.oca.org Orthodox Church in America]
* [http://www.goarch.org/en/otherpatriarchal/ Jurisdictions in America] affiliated with the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the website of [http://www.goarch.org Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]
* [http://orthodoxwiki.org/Albanian_Orthodox_Diocese_of_America Albanian Diocese] affiliated with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, at [http://www.orthodoxwiki.org OrthodoxWiki] .