Leadership
Our Hierarchs
Patriarch JOHN X is the head of the Antiochian Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church, established by the Apostle Peter, Antioch’s first Bishop.
Metropolitan Saba is the Archbishop of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America.
Bishop John is the Auxiliary Bishop of the Western Rite Vicariate in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America.
“See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is administered either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude of the people also be; even as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.
-St. Ignatius, c. 35-107 AD”