Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Territory | Southern Ukraine |
| Headquarters | Odesa,Ukraine |
| Information | |
| Sui iuris church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic |
| Rite | Byzantine |
| Established | July 28, 2003 |
| Cathedral | St. Andrew Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Odesa |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Major Archbishop | Sviatoslav Shevchuk |
| Archiepiscopal Exarch | Mykhaylo Bubniy,C.Ss.R. |
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TheUkrainian CatholicArchiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa – Crimea was established on 11 January 2002 from the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv – Vyshhorod (which has now become theUkrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia). It has been divided on 13 February 2014, inUkrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa (Latin:Archiepiscopi Exarchatus Odessana) andUkrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Crimea. The only archiepiscopal exarch wasArchbishopVasyl Ivasiuk, now transferred transfer to the see of the eparchy ofKolomyia-Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians.
They are two of the only five archiepiscopal exarchates which exist in the world, all part of the particularUkrainian Greek Catholic Church and following the ByzantineUkrainian Rite.
AsMajor Archbishops have similar authority to that ofPatriarchs, Archiepiscopal Exarchates similarly have roughly the same status in canon law as Patriarchal Exarchates.
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