Church of Greece

The Church of the Greek state, whose autocephaly was declared by the state in 1833 and granted by Constantinople in 1850. It is governed by a Holy Synod under the Archbishop of Athens, Ieronymos II since 2008. Its map is not simple: Crete and the Dodecanese belong to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, as Mount Athos does, and the dioceses of the New Lands, won in the Balkan wars, belong to Constantinople but are administered by the Church of Greece under an arrangement of 1928. Most Greeks are baptised into it, the Constitution names Orthodoxy the prevailing religion, and its feasts are the calendar of the nation. It gave the twentieth century St Nektarios of Aegina and the elders Paisios and Porphyrios, and it keeps the new calendar for its fixed feasts, adopted in 1924.