Slovak Greek Catholic Church

Coordinates: 48°59′39″N 21°14′36″E / 48.9942°N 21.2432°E / 48.9942; 21.2432
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Congregation for the Oriental Churches
RegionSlovakia
LiturgyByzantine Rite
HeadquartersPrešov, Slovakia
Members207,320[1]
Other name(s)Slovak Byzantine Catholic Church
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The Slovak Greek Catholic Church

liturgical rite is the Byzantine Rite. In 2008 in Slovakia alone, the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia had some 350,000 faithful, 374 priests and 254 parishes. In 2017, the Catholic Church counted 207,320 Greek Catholics in Slovakia worldwide, representing roughly one percent of all Eastern Catholics.[3]

History

Since the unanimous acceptance of the

Mukačevo. The eparchy of Prešov, created on September 22, 1818, was removed in 1937 from the jurisdiction of the Hungarian primate and subjected directly to the Holy See, while the 21 parishes of the eparchy of Prešov that were in Hungary were formed into the new exarchate of Miskolc
.

After

Pavel Petro Gojdič of Prešov along with his auxiliary, Blessed Basil Hopko, were imprisoned and bishop Gojdič
died in prison in 1960.

During the Prague Spring in 1968, the former Greek Catholic parishes were allowed to restore communion with Rome.[4] Of the 292 parishes involved, 205 voted in favor. This was one of the few reforms by Dubček that survived the Soviet invasion the same year. However, most of their church buildings remained in the hands of Orthodox Church.

After communism was overthrown in the 1989

Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic (now considered part of Ruthenian Catholic Church
); the 2007 Annuario Pontificio indicated that it had by then grown to having 177,704 faithful, 37 priests and 25 parishes.

In Slovakia itself,

Eparchy of Bratislava
. He also raised Prešov to the level of a metropolitan see, constituting the Slovak Greek Catholic Church as a sui iuris metropolitan Church.

Structure

Eparchies in Slovakia

Slovakia:

  • Archeparchy of Prešov
    with the following suffragans:
    • Eparchy of Bratislava
    • Eparchy of Košice

Abroad

In the United States and Canada, the Slovak Greek Catholics fall under the jurisdiction of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, with the Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto for Slovak Greek Catholics reduced from an eparchy and transferred to Ruthenian authority in 2022.[5]

Notes

  1. Latin
    : Ecclesia Graeco Catholica Slovacica

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2017-03-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov".
  3. ^ "Eastern Catholic Churches Worldwide 2017" (PDF). Annuario Pontificio. 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2021 – via Catholic Near East Welfare Association.
  4. ^ "Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia". `Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Rinunce e nomine, 03.03.2022". 3 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.

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