Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul

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The Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Constantinople (Exarchatus Apostolicus Constantinopolitanus) is an Apostolic Exarchate (a missionary pre-diocesan structure) of the

The exarchate is exempt, which means that it is directly subject to the Holy See, as the Greek Catholic Church does not have a metropolitan bishop. Its geographic remit includes the entire territory of Turkey. Its cathedral church is the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity which is situated in Istanbul. As of 2017, it was the sole parish of the exarchate and had 16 parishioners. The last resident Greek-Catholic priest in Constantinople died in 1997 and has not been replaced. The only regular services in the Church of the Holy Trinity are held by exiled Chaldean of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Amida living in the city.^[1]

History

The first steps toward creating a particular jurisdiction for Greek Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in the European part of the Ottoman Empire were made in 1907, when Greek Catholic priest Isaias Papadopoulos was made vicar general for the Greek Catholics within the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Delegation of Constantinople.^[2]

The Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of

• Theodoropolis of the Greeks; later Apostolic Exarch of Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece (Greece) (June 11, 1932 – November 7, 1957)^[8]
• Dionisio Leonida Varouhas, Apostolic Exarch of Constantinople (June 11, 1932 – death January 28, 1957),
  Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis;^[9]
• Izmir (Turkey) (December 7, 1978 – January 22, 1983)^[10]
• Apostolic Administrator (November 25, 1996 – 2016)^[11]
• Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzalez, O.F.M., Apostolic Administrator (April 16, 2016 – December 22, 2020), titular Bishop of Tubernuca^[12]
• Lorenzo Piretto, O.P., Apostolic Administrator (December 24, 2020 - September 13, 2021)
• Massimiliano Palinuro, Apostolic Administrator (September 14, 2021 – present)

See also

• Catholic Church in Turkey
• Bulgarian Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Istanbul
• Greek Catholic Church of Nazareth

References

Sources

• Frazee, Charles A. (2006) [1983]. Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 9780521027007
  .

• Catholic Hierarchy: Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul (Constantinople) ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy: Apostolic Exarchate of Greece (Greek) ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy: Georges Calavassy ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy: Denis Leonid Varouhas ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy: Domenico Caloyera ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy: Louis Pelâtre ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy: Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzalez ^{[self-published]}
• Unofficial Home Page of the Society of St. John Chrysostom of Ayatriada Rum Katoliki Kilise, Istanbul

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