Georges Dankaye', Armenian Catholic Patriarchal
ExarchateAn apostolic
exarchate is created by the Vatican for the pastoral care of Catholics in an area outside the territory of the Eastern Catholic church to which they belong.
Bulgarian territorial-national aspirations upon Macedonia in modern times basically have been derived from two historical events relating to 19th century Bulgarian history: the establishment of the Bulgarian
Exarchate in 1870 by the Ottoman sultan, and the creation of the Great Bulgaria in 1878 according to the "St.
Central to the irredentist drive was the issue of the Bulgarian
Exarchate. What was Russia's position?
The German invasion forced the Soviets to abandon their plans for a major anti-religious campaign and, with the flight of Metropolitan Nikolai from his
exarchate to Moscow, simultaneously opened the possibility for Dionizy to reassert his control over this portion of his former jurisdiction.
"Properties of the Bulgarian
Exarchate in Istanbul are not only of material value.
This is why the people, the individuals identified as citizens (as a subject without a personal mark--identity) are showing a tough resistance to the modern
exarchate propaganda.
(18) As Fr John wrote in his article Orthodox Theology in the Contemporary World (Messenger of the Western-European Patriarchal
Exarchate, no.
The Ruthenian bishop of Pittsburgh was invested with jurisdiction over "Catholics of the Greek-Ruthenian rite who have migrated from Podcarpathia to America," while the Ukrainian bishop of Philadelphia was charged with care of "Catholics of the Greek-Ruthenian rite who have migrated from Galicia to America."(11) We find it again at Vatican II: "individual faithful who live outside the area or territory of their own rite."(12) As late as 1982, an
exarchate was established in America for Chaldean Catholics who "having left their own regions, have found a new place to live and work in the welcoming lands of the United States of America."(13) The underlying assumption is that there are specific places where the "Eastern" churches are properly located.
El-Hage, Maronite Patriarchal
Exarchate, Bishop Suheil Dawani, Episcopal Church
The Ottoman government restored the Bulgarian Patriarchate under the name of "Bulgarian
Exarchate" by a decree (firman) of the Sultan promulgated on February 28, 1870.
The country was designated an
Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1989, creating the BOC under Patriarchal Exarch Metropolitan Filaret.