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An ordinariate for the faithful of Eastern rite is a geographical ecclesiastical structure for Eastern Catholic communities in areas where no eparchy of their own particular Church has been established. This structure was introduced by the apostolic letter Officium supremi Apostolatus of 15 July 1912.^[1]

In the Annuario Pontificio the eight existing ordinariates of this kind are listed together with the fifteen (pre-diocesan) apostolic exarchates. Of these ordinariates, four (in Argentina, Brazil, France and Poland) are generically for all Eastern Catholics who lack a 'proper' diocesan jurisdiction of their own rite in the particular country and who are therefore entrusted to the care of a Latin Archbishop in the country. The one in Austria is for Catholics belonging to any of the fourteen particular Churches that use the Byzantine Rite. The other three (Ex-Soviet 'Eastern Europe', Greece and Romania) are exclusively for members of the Armenian Catholic Church.

Existing ordinariates

Ordinariate	Geographical area	Jurisdiction	Cathedral see	Ordinary	Date(s) of founding
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Argentina	Argentina	All Eastern Catholics	now Buenos Aires	Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires	1959-02-19
Ordinariate for Catholics of Byzantine Rite in Austria	Austria	Byzantine Rite Catholics	Vienna	vested in the Metropolitan Archbishop of Vienna	1945-10-03 and 1956-06-13
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Brazil	Brazil	All Eastern Catholics	presently Belo Horizonte	Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte	1951-11-14
Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe	only Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Poland and Ukraine	Armenian Rite Catholics	Gyumri (Armenia)	Armenian bishop of a titular see	1991-07-13
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France	France	All Eastern Catholics	Paris	vested in the Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris	1954-06-16
Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Greece	Greece	Armenian Rite Catholics	Athens	vacant (under an apostolic administrator)	1925-12-21
Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania	Romania	Armenian Rite Catholics	Gherla	vacant (under an apostolic administrator)	1930-06-05
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Spain	Spain	All Eastern Catholics	none yet	Metropolitan Archbishop of Madrid	2016-06-09

Former ordinariates

Ordinariate of the Albanians in Sicily (Italy, promoted to Italo-Albanese Catholic Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi)
Ordinariate of Poland for Greek and Armenian Catholics, became the present all-rites Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Poland

References

^ Annuario Pontificio 2012 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2008 ISBN 978-88-209-8722-0), p. 1811

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