Ordinariate for the Believers of the Eastern Rite
A chair of the faithful of the Eastern rite is as Ordinariat one of the particular Church equivalent administrative unit of the Roman Catholic Church for the faithful of the Eastern Church rites (members of the Eastern Catholic Churches ) in areas where there is no hierarchy of their rite church there. There are ordinariates for believers of the Byzantine and Armenian rites, as well as those for all Eastern rites. The ordinariates for the Byzantine or all Eastern believers are predominantly in areas where the Latin Church is traditionally predominant ( Western and Central Europe , South America ), the ordinariates for the Armenian believers in Eastern Europe, where the Byzantine tradition predominates. Ordinary is often a Latin bishop .
The type of jurisdiction was established with the apostolic letter Officium supremi Apostolatus of July 15, 1912. In the Annuario Pontificio the eight ordinariates are listed together with the fifteen Apostolic Exarchates .
- Byzantine tradition
- Ordinariate for the Byzantine Believers in Argentina
- Ordinariate for the Byzantine Believers in Brazil
- Ordinariate for Byzantine Believers in France
- Ordinariate for Byzantine Believers in Poland
- Armenian tradition
- Ordinariate for the Armenian Believers in Eastern Europe
- Ordinariate for the Armenian Believers in Romania
- Ordinariate for the Armenian Believers in Greece
- All eastern rites
- Ordinariate for the faithful of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria
- Ordinariate for the Believers in Eastern Rites in Spain
Web links
- Entry to chair of the faithful of the Eastern Rite on gcatholic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2012 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2008 ISBN 978-88-209-8722-0 ), page 1811