Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk

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Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
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Coat of arms of Donetsk exarchate
Location
CountryFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
TerritoryEastern Ukraine (Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhya Oblasts)
Headquarters Donetsk (temporary in Zaporizhya), Ukraine
Population
- Catholics

8,000
Information
Sui iuris church Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Rite Byzantine
EstablishedJanuary 11, 2002
CathedralCatholic Cathedral in Donetsk
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Archiepiscopal Exarch Stepan Meniok, C.Ss.R., Exarch of the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
Auxiliary Bishops Maksym Ryabukha, S.D.B.
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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.

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Church of the Holy Mother of God, Donetsk Donetsk greko-katolicheskiy hram.jpg
Church of the Holy Mother of God, Donetsk
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Monastery of the Heart of Christ, Zvanivka

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
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