As these communities began forming parishes, the Greek believers looked the Church of Greece for priests.

Responding to the calls from the New World, in 1908, the Patriarchate in Constantinople issued a decree giving episcopal oversight of the Americas to the Church of Greece.

In 1922, Meletius, now Patriarch of Constantinople, revoked the decree of 1908, and formally organized the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America on May 11, 1922 and appointed Bp.

In 1960, the Metropolis of Toronto became the Ninth Archdiocesan District of Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America.

The present Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto (Canada), Sotirios, was elected Bishop of Constantia on December 18, 1973 and ordained on January 27, 1974.

As stated earlier, on 24 September 1996, Sotirios was elevated to the rank of "Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto and Exarch of all Canada".