Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul
| Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Turkey |
| Apostolic Administrator | Rubén Tierrablanca González |
| Apostolic Administrator Emeritus | Louis Pelâtre |
| founding | 1911 |
| surface | 814,578 km² |
| Parishes | 1 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 77,804,122 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 25 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 0% |
| rite | Byzantine rite |
| Liturgical language | Greek |
The Apostolic Exarchate Istanbul ( lat. : Apostolicus Exarchatus Constantinopolitanus ) is in Turkey located with Rome uniertes Apostolic Exarchate of the Byzantine rite , located in the district of Beyoğlu from Istanbul .
Today it only includes about 25 Christians.
history
On June 11, 1911, Pope Pius X established an independent exarchate for the Greek Catholics of the Byzantine rite in the European part of the Ottoman Empire with its seat in Constantinople. In 1922, the then exarch 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 1932 a separate exarchate for Greece was founded in Athens from the area of the Apostolic Exarchate of the European part of the Ottoman Empire . The rest of the areas were renamed the Istanbul Apostolic Exarchate . Since after the pogrom in Istanbul a massive emigration of the up to then numerically strong Greek population began, the number of Christians fell dramatically in a very short time, so that the chair has not been occupied since 1957 and no administrator has been appointed since 1976. The leadership of the Byzantine diocese has been exercised by the shepherd of the Latin diocese since 1999.
Apostolic Exarchs of Istanbul
- Isaias Papadopoulos (1911–)
- George Calavassy (1920–1932, then Apostolic Exarch of Greece )
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Dionisio Leonida Varouhas (1932–1957)
- Domenico Caloyera OP (1955–1957) ( Apostolic Administrator sede plena )
- Domenico Caloyera OP (1957–1976) (Apostolic Administrator)
- Louis Pelâtre AA (1999-2016) (Apostolic Administrator)
- Rubén Tierrablanca González OFM (since 2016) (Apostolic Administrator)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | Friars | Religious sisters | |||
| 1950 | 1,000 | 3 | 3 | 333 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 1969 | 134 | 1 | 1 | 134 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 1980 | 70 | 1 | 1 | 70 | 1 | ||||||
| 1990 | 50 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1999 | 40 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2000 | 45 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2001 | 45 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2004 | 40 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2009 | 25th | 1 | |||||||||
See also
Web links
- Entry on Apostolic Exarchate Istanbul on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- Entry on Apostolic Exarchate Istanbul on gcatholic.org (English)