Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago

Metropolis of Chicago
Bishopric
Location
Country	United States of America
Territory	Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota Northern Indiana, and Eastern Missouri, United States
Statistics
Population - Total	~250,000 [1]
Parishes	61
Information
Cathedral	Annunciation Cathedral of Chicago
Current leadership
Patriarch	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Major Archbishop	Archbishop Elpidophoros of America
Metropolitan	Nathanael (Symeonides)
Website
https://chicago.goarch.org/

The Metropolis of Chicago (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Σικάγου) is a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in the North-Central Midwest, United States, with its see city of Chicago. The mother church of the Metropolis is Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago.

On 7 February 2018, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople unanimously elected Nathanael Symeonides as the metropolitan of Chicago, succeeding Metropolitan Iakovos. He was ordained a bishop on 17 March 2018, in the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, New York City, and enthroned on 24 March 2018 in the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Chicago).^[2]

The Metropolis of Chicago consists of thirty-four parishes in Illinois, with another twenty-four parishes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, northern Indiana, and eastern and central Missouri. The general offices of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago are located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.