Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
Coat of arms of Donetsk exarchate
Location
Country Ukraine
TerritoryEastern Ukraine (Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhya Oblasts)
HeadquartersDonetsk (temporary in Zaporizhya), Ukraine
Population
- Catholics
8,000
Information
Sui iuris churchUkrainian Greek Catholic
RiteByzantine
EstablishedJanuary 11, 2002
CathedralCatholic Cathedral in Donetsk
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Major ArchbishopSviatoslav Shevchuk
Archiepiscopal ExarchStepan Meniok, C.Ss.R., Exarch of the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
Auxiliary BishopsMaksym 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.

Church of the Holy Mother of God, Donetsk
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

Sources and external links

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