His Eminence Metropolitan Maximos (Aghiorgoussis) serves the Metropolis of Pittsburgh in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He was elected to this see in March 1979, and enthroned as the first bishop of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh on April 27, 1979. As the Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh, His Eminence shepherds 54 parishes in the states of Pennsylvania (30), Ohio (18), and West Virginia (six).