STANDING CONFERENCE OF ORTHODOX BISHOPS IN AMERICA

STANDING CONFERENCE OF ORTHODOX BISHOPS IN AMERICA. Known by the familiar acronym SCOBA, the Standing Conference first convened on 15 March 1960. The primary fields of cooperation among the canonical Orthodox churches in the United States include religious education in the Orthodox Christian Education Commission, college campus ministries in the Orthodox Christian Fellowships, ecumenical relations in presenting a united witness in the National Council of Churches, military chaplaincy in the Committee on Chaplaincy to the United States Armed Forces, and clergy fellowship in the various clergy associations throughout the country. The member groups in alphabetical order are the Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America, American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of New York and All North America, Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, Orthodox Church in America, Romanian Orthodox Missionary Episcopate in America, Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States of America and Canada, and Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America. The members represent almost all the canonical Orthodox churches one can find in the western hemisphere.