Russian Greek Catholic Church

The Russian Catholic Church is a united church within the Catholic Church and is subordinate to the Pope in Rome.

history

Banned in Russia until 1905, Tsar Nicholas II relaxed the religious laws so that the small community of Catholic Christians was tolerated according to the Byzantine rite . These were summarized in 1917 in the Apostolic Exarchate of Moscow (Apostolic Exarchate for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Russia) , which was soon almost completely destroyed in the turmoil of communism .

A second exarchate, the Harbin Apostolic Exarchate (Apostolic Exarchate for Russians of the Byzantine Rite and all Catholics of an Oriental Rite in China) , was established on May 24, 1928 in what was then the Republic of China .

These two dioceses are mentioned in the Annuario Pontificio , but there are neither appointed pastors nor an indication of the number of believers. In order to ensure the formation of its own clergy , the Russicum was founded in Rome in 1929 , which is under the supervision of the Jesuits and is supposed to send missionaries to these areas.

In 1987, the head of the UGCC declared in Rome that it was ready for reconciliation with the Moscow Patriarchate, but the rapprochement between Orthodoxy and Catholicism remained difficult.

In 2004 Pope John Paul II appointed the Jesuit Joseph Werth as Ordinarius for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite of Russia.

Communities

According to the Vatican, 29 Catholic parishes of the Byzantine Rite with around 3000 believers are active in Russia today.

• Russia
  • Moscow : Congregation in honor of Saint Metropolitan Philip
  • Saint Petersburg : Holy Cross Congregation and St. Michael Congregation
  • Sargatskoye : St. Cyril Parish
  • Nizhnevartovsk : Greek Catholic parish dedicated to St. Nicholas
• China
• United States
  • New York City : St. Michael's Russian Catholic Chapel
  • San Francisco : Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church
  • Denver : Sts. Cyril and Methodius Russian Catholic Community
  • El Segundo : St. Andrew's Russian Greek Catholic Church
• France
  • Paris : Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité
  • Meudon
  • Lyon : Paroisse catholique de rite byzantin Saint-Irénée
• Italy
  • Rome : Monastero Russo Uspenskij and Sant'Antonio Abate all'Esquilino
  • Milan : Centro Studi Russia Cristiana
• Germany
  • Berlin : Church of St. Nicholas
  • Munich : Russian Greek Catholic Chapel St. Nicholas and Sel. Leonid
• Other countries
  • Dublin , Republic of Ireland : Community of St. John Chrysostom
  • Melbourne , Australia
  • Brazil
  • Buenos Aires , Argentina
  • Singapore

See also

• Particular church
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses
• Leonid Ivanovich Fyodorov

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter from the Saint-Joseph Abbey. Retrieved November 19, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Smaller Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine Rite: Purely formally existing Eastern Catholic Churches , prooriente.at
3. ↑ Thomas Bremer: The Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine Today: Ideological Obstacles to Dialogue with Orthodoxy at owep.de, accessed on February 17, 2015.
4. ^ Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali, Oriente Cattolico . Valore Italiano, Roma 2017. Vol. 2, p. 631.