Apostolic Exarchate Greece

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Apostolic Exarchate Greece
Map of the Apostolic Exarchate Greece
Basic data
Rite church Greek Greek Catholic Church
Country Greece
Apostolic Exarch Manuel Nin OSB
Apostolic Exarch Emeritus Dimitrios Salachas
founding 1923
surface 135,228 km²
Parishes 3 (December 31, 2009 / AP2010 )
Residents 11,305,118 ( 12/31/2009 / AP2010 )
Catholics 2,500 ( 12/31/2009 / AP2010 )
proportion of 0%
Diocesan priest 11 ( 12/31/2009 / AP2010 )
Catholics per priest 227
Permanent deacons 1 (December 31, 2009 / AP2010 )
Religious sisters 15 (December 31, 2009 / AP2010 )
rite Byzantine rite
Liturgical language Greek
Website www.elcathex.gr

The Apostolic Exarchate Greece ( Latin : Apostolicus Exarchatus Graeciae ) is an Apostolic Exarchate for the Catholic believers in Greece who belong to the Byzantine Rite , the Greek Greek Catholic Church . The Exarchate in 1911 by Pope Pius X founded. The jurisdiction now includes a little more than 2,000 Catholics in Greece and 40 in European Turkey, where the Exarchate was initially based in Istanbul . 7 priests are available for their pastoral care, all of whom were originally ordained in the Latin rite and are therefore obliged to be celibate. The Exarch's seat is in Athens .

In addition to the exarchate, there are also several Roman Catholic dioceses of the Latin rite in Greece. (see Roman Catholic Church in Greece ) . “ Greek Catholic ”, on the other hand, denotes all Byzantine rite churches . Since there are almost no believers of the rite in today's Turkey, the Greek Greek Catholic Church today generally means the exarchate of Greece.

history

In 1826 the Catholic priest Johannes Marangos began a mission among the Orthodox Christians in Constantinople, where he succeeded in establishing a small community. In 1878 he moved on to Athens , where he died in 1885. He had founded a church there too. Furthermore, he won two small villages in Thrace for the Catholic faith.

After the Assumptionists began their work in Constantinople in 1895 , founded a seminary and two other small congregations, in 1910 there were around 1,000 believers with 12 priests, 10 of whom were Assumptionists.

On June 11, 1911, Pope Pius X established an independent exarchate for the Greek Catholics in the Ottoman Empire and on June 28 of the same year appointed Isaias Papadopoulos, the first bishop . Until then, all parishes were dependent on the Apostolic Delegation in Athens, but the new bishop initially had his seat in Constantinople. In 1922 the bishop moved to Athens as a result of the Greco-Turkish War . After the war there was an exchange of population between Greece and Turkey in 1923/24 . In this context almost all Catholic believers of the Byzantine Rite moved to Macedonia, which Bishop George Calavassy had to oversee. In 1923 the ordinariate was raised to the rank of Apostolic Exarchate . A separate exarch was set up for Turkey in 1932 in Istanbul. Due to the small number of believers, this post is no longer filled.

Apostolic Exarchs of Greece

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest Friars Religious sisters
1950 1,710 7,800,000 0.0 14th 14th 122 20th 3
1970 3,000 ? ? 15th 15th 200 34 2
1980 2,500 ? ? 14th 14th 178 22nd 2
1990 2,300 ? ? 12 12 191 17th 2
1999 2,300 ? ? 8th 8th 287 2 10 3
2000 2,300 ? ? 7th 7th 328 2 10 3
2001 2,300 ? ? 7th 7th 328 1 10 3
2002 2,300 ? ? 7th 7th 328 1 10 3
2003 2,300 ? ? 8th 8th 287 2 10 3
2004 2,300 ? ? 8th 8th 287 2 10 3
2009 2,500 ? ? 11 11 227 1 15th 3

activities

The small community is best known for the Pammakaristos Hospital in Athens, founded in 1944 , which is now considered one of the best hospitals in the country.

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