Exarchate
Template:Short description Template:Cleanup reorganize An exarchate is any territorial jurisdiction, either secular or ecclesiastical, whose ruler is called an exarch. Byzantine Emperor Maurice created the first exarchates in the recently reconquered provinces of the former Western Empire. The term is still used for naming some of the smaller communities of Eastern Rite Catholics as well as Eastern Orthodox Christians.
Administration of the secular Byzantine Empire
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- Exarchate of Ravenna[2]
Ecclesiastical administration
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Catholicism
Apostolic exarchates in the Greek Catholic churches
- Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece
- Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul
- Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians
- Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic
- Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Italy
Maronite Catholic Patriarchal exarchates
- Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Palestine
- Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal exarchates
- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Kuwait
- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Istanbul
- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq
Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal exarchates
Eastern Orthodoxy
Exarchates of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
- Former
- Exarchate of Metsovo (16th–1795; ended in 1924[3])
- Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' (1620–1686)
- Exarchate of Western Europe (1921 – dissolved Template:Circa 2018–2020)
- Current
- Exarchate of the Philippines
- Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada
- Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Lithuania, or Patriarchal Exarchate in Lithuania (established in 2023, recognised by the government of Lithuania in 2024[4])
Exarchates of the Orthodox Church in America
Exarchates of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Belarusian Exarchate
- Exarch Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Spain and Portugal
- Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe (established 2018)
- Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia
- Russian Exarchate of North America (historical)
- Little Russian Exarchate (1685–1718, 1743–1767) → Ukrainian Exarchate (1921–1990)
See also
References
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