Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas

The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas was an organization of bishops from Eastern Orthodox Christian jurisdictions in the Americas. It acted as a clearinghouse for educational, charitable, and missionary work in the Americas. In 2010, it was replaced by the North and Central America">North America">North and Central America.
The members of SCOBA were the archbishops, metropolitan bishops, and bishops of the canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches in North and South America. These are churches in full communion with the four ancient Greek Orthodox Patriarchates – Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Patriarch of Antioch, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem – and with the Patriarchate of Moscow.

Jurisdictions

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