Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa

Ukrainian Catholic missionary jurisdiction in south western Ukraine

Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa


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	Francis
Major Archbishop	Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Archiepiscopal Exarch	Mykhaylo Bubniy, C.Ss.R.
Map

The Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa – Crimea was established on 11 January 2002 from the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv – Vyshhorod (which has now become the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia). It has been divided on 13 February 2014, in Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa (Latin: Archiepiscopi Exarchatus Odessana) and Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Crimea. The only archiepiscopal exarch was Archbishop Vasyl Ivasiuk, now transferred transfer to the see of the eparchy of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians.

They are two of the only five archiepiscopal exarchates which exist in the world, all part of the particular Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and following the Byzantine Ukrainian Rite.

Status as Archiepiscopal Exarchate

As Major Archbishops have similar authority to that of Patriarchs, Archiepiscopal Exarchates similarly have roughly the same status in canon law as Patriarchal Exarchates.

External links

Catholic Hierarchy – Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa (Ukrainian)
GCatholic.org information page about the Archiepiscopal Exarchate
Українська Греко-Католицька Церква: Синод єпископів УГКЦ розділив Одесько-Кримський екзархат
Holy See Press Office: Other pontifical acts February 13, 2014

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Hierarchy including Ecclesiastical circumscriptions

Major archeparchy

Kyiv–Galicia: Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Archeparchies

Eparchies

Ukraine	Buchach: Dmytro Hryhorak Chernivtsi: Yosafat Moschych Kamyanets–Podilskyi: Ivan Kulyk Kolomyia: Vasyl Ivasyuk Sambir–Drohobych: Yaroslav Pryriz Sokal–Zhovkva: Mykhaylo Koltun Stryi: Taras Senkiv
Poland	Olsztyn–Gdańsk: Arkadiusz Trochanowski Wrocław–Koszalin: Włodzimierz Juszczak
Canada	Edmonton: David Motiuk Saskatoon: Michael Smolinski New Westminster: Michael Kwiatkowski Toronto and Eastern Canada: Bryan Bayda
United States	Saint Nicholas of Chicago: Venedykt Aleksiychuk Saint Josaphat in Parma: Bohdan Danylo Stamford: Paul Chomnycky
Brazil	Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis: Meron Mazur
Argentina	Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
Australia and New Zealand	Saints Peter and Paul of Australia: Mykola Bychok
United Kingdom	Holy Family of London: Kenneth Nowakowski
France, Benelux and Switzerland	Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris: Hlib Lonchyna (Apostolic Administrator)