The Apostolic Exarchate of Greece is a Greek Byzantine Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wi ...

. As there are no metropolitan sees in the Greek Byzantine Church, it is exempt directly to the

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and the

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. The

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is in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the

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Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates a ...

, with a

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responsible for the entire Greek Byzantine Catholic community in Greece.

History

It was established on 11 June 1932 as the Apostolic Exarchate of Greece, from territory split off from the then Apostolic Exarchate of Turkey of Europe (meaning

European Turkey East Thrace or Eastern Thrace ( tr, Doğu Trakya or simply ''Trakya''; el, Ανατολική Θράκη, ''Anatoliki Thraki''; bg, Източна Тракия, ''Iztochna Trakiya''), also known as Turkish Thrace or European Turkey, is the pa ...

), now the Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul. The Greek Byzantine Catholic bishop of European Turkey, George Cavassy, became the new bishop of the Greek Catholic Exarchate of Greece.

Ordinaries

;''Apostolic Exarchs of Greece'' * George Calavassy (1932.06.11 – death 1957.11.07),

Titular Bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox a ...

of Theodoropolis (1920.07.13 – 1957.11.07); previously

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(

) (1920.07.13 – 1932.06.11) *

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(1958.02.17 – death 1975.01.30), Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis (in Mauretania) (1958.02.17 – 1975.01.30) * Anárghyros Printesis (1975.06.28 – retired 2008.04.23), Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis (1975.06.28 – death 2012.03.18) * Dimitrios Salachas (2008.04.23 – 2016.02.02), Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis (2012.05.14 – ...), Member of Commission for the Study of the Reform of the Matrimonial Processes in Canon Law (2014.08.27 – 2015); previously Titular Bishop of

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(2008.04.23 – 2012.05.14) * Manuel Nin (2016.02.02 – ...), Titular Bishop of

(2016.02.02 – ...)

Source and External links

Website of the Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece

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