Exarchate

This list of exarchates contains an overview of administrative jurisdictions, either political or ecclesiastical, that are headed by an exarch. The list includes both historical and modern exarchates.

Political exarchates

Roman Empire

Byzantine Empire

Ecclesiastical exarchates

Catholicism

Apostolic exarchates of the Byzantine Rite

Apostolic exarchates of the Antiochian Rite

Apostolic exarchates of the Armenian Rite

Patriarchal exarchates

Patriarchal exarchates of the Armenian Rite

  • Armenian Catholic Church:
    • Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Damascus
    • Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Amman

Patriarchal exarchates of the Byzantine Rite

  • Melkite (Greek) Catholic Church:
    • Melkite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq
    • Melkite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Istanbul
    • Melkite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Kuwait

Patriarchal exarchates of the Antiochian Rite

Archiepiscopal exarchates

Archiepiscopal exarchates of the Byzantine Rite

  • Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church
    • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
    • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv
    • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk
    • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa
    • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Krym

Former Eastern Catholic exarchates

Former Eastern Catholic exarchates in the Old World

in Europe – Byzantine Rite

  • Bulgarian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Sofia
  • Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Turkey of Europe
  • Hungarian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc
  • Apostolic Exarchate of Łemkowszczyzna
  • Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Belarus
  • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk-Kharkiv
  • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk-Volyn
  • Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa-Crimea
  • Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2013)
  • Byzantine Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia
  • Apostolic Exarchate of Macedonia

in Asia – Armenian Rite

  • Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem
  • Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Syria

in Asia – Antiochian Rite

in Asia – Syro-Oriental Rite

  • Syro-Malabar Apostolic Exarchate of Chanda

in Africa – Alexandrian Rite

  • Apostolic Exarchate of Addis Abbeba
  • Apostolic Exarchate of Asmara

in Africa – Antiochian Rite

  • Maronite Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Western and Central Africa
Former Eastern Catholic exarchates in the New World

in the Americas – Antiochian Rite

  • Maronite Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of the USA

in the Americas – Armenian Rite

  • Armenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Latin America and Mexico
  • Armenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of the USA and Canada

in the Americas – Byzantine Rite

in the AmericasSyro-Oriental Rite

Eastern Orthodoxy

Exarchates of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Former
Current

Exarchates of the Russian Orthodox Church

Exarchates of other Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions

See also

References

  1. ^ Shlosser 2003, p. 27-45.

Sources

  • Gelichi, Sauro (2021). "The Venetiae, the Exarchate and the Pentapolis". A Companion to Byzantine Italy. Boston-Leiden: Brill. pp. 360–386.
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  • Shlosser, Franziska E. (2003). "The Exarchates of Africa and Italy". Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik. 53: 27–45.