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Polish Orthodox Church

Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland · Warsaw · est. 1924 · No. 12 in the diptychs

An autocephalous Orthodox Church; reverted to the Old (Julian) Calendar in 2014.

The Polish Orthodox Church (the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Poland) traces its modern autocephaly to 1924. Its primate bears the title Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland. Having adopted the New Calendar in 1924, its Holy Council repealed that decree in 2014 and returned to the Old (Julian) Calendar, with New-style parishes permitted by indult.