Area 135,228 km² | ||
The Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece is the junior of still only two jurisdictions constituting the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris, which practices the Byzantine Rite in the Greek language.
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It is exempt, i.e. not part of any ecclesiastical province, but directly subject to the Holy See (notably the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches).
It has its cathedral episcopal see in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Athens, Greece, and covers the whole of the Hellenic Republic.
History
It was established on 11 June 1932 as the Apostolic Exarchate of Greece, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Exarchate of Turkey of Europe (sic, meaning European Turkey; with see in transcontinental Istanbul alias Contantinople in Turkey; now called 'Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul'), whose Apostolic Exarch transferred to the new exarchate.
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(all Greek Rite)