Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk explained

Jurisdiction:Archiepiscopal Exarchate
Donetsk
Country: Ukraine
Territory:Eastern Ukraine (Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhya Oblasts)
Headquarters:Donetsk (temporary in Zaporizhya), Ukraine
Catholics:8,000
Sui Iuris Church:Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Rite:Byzantine
Established:January 11, 2002
Cathedral:Catholic Cathedral in Donetsk
Major Archbishop:Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Bishop:Stepan Meniok, C.Ss.R., Exarch of the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
Bishop Title:Archiepiscopal Exarch
Auxiliary Bishops:Maksym Ryabukha, S.D.B.
Map:Map of Greek Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk.svg

The Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk (Latin: Archiepiscopi Exarchatus Doneckiensis) is one of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Byzantine Rite, Ukrainian language)'s five Archiepiscopal Exarchate (Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction under a Major Archbishop) in Eastern Ukraine.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Virgin of Mercy, in Donetsk. There is a Basilian monastery at Zvanivka, in the north of Donetsk Oblast.

The current, and first, archiepiscopal exarch is Bishop Stepan Meniok, C.Ss.R.

History

It was established on 11 January 2002 as the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k – Kharkiv, on territory split off from the then Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv – Vyshhorod (which became the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv).

On 2 April 2014 the Exarchate was renamed as Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk, having lost territory to establish the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv.

Episcopal ordinaries

Archiepiscopal Exarch of Donetsk–Kharkiv
Archiepiscopal Exarchs of Donetsk

Sources and external links

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