The Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k – Kharkiv was established on the 11th January, 2002 from the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv – Vyshhorod (which has now become the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv-Halych. The current, and first, archiepiscopal exarch is Archbishop Stephan Meniok, C.S.S.R.. It is one of the only two archiepiscopal exarchates which exist in the world - both being Ukrainian Rite.
As Major Archbishops have similar authority to that of Patriarchs, Archiepiscopal Exarchates similarly have roughly the same status in canon law as Patriarchal Exarchates.
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