Country Ukraine Population
- Catholics ? Major archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk | Headquarters Kharkiv, Ukraine Rite Byzantine | |
Territory Northern-Eastern Ukraine (Kharkiv, Poltava, and Sumy Oblasts) Sui iuris church Ukrainian Greek Catholic | ||
The Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv was established on 2 April 2014 after division of the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk – Kharkiv in two Exarchates . The current, and first, Archiepiscopal Exarch is Bishop Vasyl Tuchapets, O.S.B.M.
It is one of only five archiepiscopal exarchates worldwide - all of them being Ukrainian Rite.
Status as Archiepiscopal Exarchate
As Major Archbishops have similar authority to that of Patriarchs, Archiepiscopal Exarchates similarly have roughly the same status in canon law as Patriarchal Exarchates.
References
Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA