Ordinariate for the faithful of eastern rite
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 apostolic exarchates. Of these ordinariates, four (in Argentina, Brazil, France and Poland) are generically for all Eastern Catholics who lack a 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 (Eastern Europe, Greece and Romania) are for members of the Armenian Catholic Church.
Existing ordinariates
Ordinariate | Geographical area | Jurisdiction | Ordinary | Date(s) of founding |
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Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Argentina | Argentina | All Eastern Catholics | Archbishop of Buenos Aires | 1959-02-19 |
Ordinariate for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Austria | Austria | Byzantine-rite Catholics | Archbishop of Vienna | 1945-10-03 and 1956-06-13 |
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Brazil | Brazil | All Eastern Catholics | Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro | 1951-11-14 |
Ordinariate for Armenian-rite Catholics in Eastern Europe | Eastern Europe | Armenian-rite Catholics | Armenian bishop of a titular see | 1991-07-13 |
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France [2][3] | France | All Eastern Catholics | Archbishop of Paris | 1954-06-16 |
Ordinariate for Armenian-rite Catholics in Greece | Greece | Armenian-rite Catholics | vacant (under an apostolic administrator) | 1925-12-21 |
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Poland | Poland | All Eastern Catholics | Archbishop of Warsaw | 1991-01-16 |
Ordinariate for Armenian-rite Catholics in Romania | Romania | Armenian-rite Catholics | vacant (under an apostolic administrator) | 1930-06-05 |
See also
References
- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2012 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2008 ISBN 978-88-209-8722-0), p. 1811
- ↑ Catholic-Hierarchy
- ↑ GCatholic