Romanian Greek Catholic Eparchy of St. George

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Eparchy of St. George

Eparchia Sancti Georgii Martyris Romenorum
Location
CountryUnited States
Ecclesiastical province Immediately exempt to the Holy See
Statistics
Population
- Catholics
(as of 2020)
6,000
Parishes18
Churches11
Congregations20
Schools0
Members6,000
Information
Sui iuris church Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Rite Byzantine
EstablishedMarch 26, 1987 (37 years ago)
Cathedral St. George Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Eparch John Michael Botean
Website
romaniancatholic.org

The Romanian Greek Catholic Eparchy of St. George is a Romanian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the United States and Canada. The incumbent eparch is John Michael Botean. The cathedral church of the eparchy is St. George's Cathedral, Canton, Ohio. There are fourteen parishes and five missions in the United States. There are two parishes in Canada. [1]

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History

The first Romanian Greek Catholic parish in the United States was established in 1905 by Epaminonda Lucaciu. [2]

The eparchy was previously an apostolic exarchate which was established by Pope John Paul II in 1982 in order to formally organize the Romanian Greek Catholic parishes that had long existed in the United States under many different Latin Church dioceses. However, in 1987, the apostolic exarchate for Romanian Greek Catholics in North America was promoted to the status of an eparchy. The eparchy is the only diocese of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church outside Romania and is directly exempt to the Holy See.

In 2005, Holy Resurrection Monastery was transferred from the Ruthenian Catholic Church to the Eparchy of St. George at the request of the monks and with the consent of the Holy See. Around the same time, Bishop John Michael blessed the canonical establishment of Holy Theophany Monastery as a monastic community of nuns.

List of eparchs

List of parishes

In the United States

In Canada

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References

  1. "Our Diocese : RomanianCatholic.org".
  2. “St. Helena Romanian Byzantine Catholic Church”, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History