The Ordinariate for the Faithful of Eastern Rite in Spain is an

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(pseudo-

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) for all non-Latin

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faithful living in

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who belong to the

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es ''sui iuris'' of any

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immediately subject to the

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History

It was erected on 9 June 2016 by

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, who also named the current Archbishop of Madrid,

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, as its first Ordinary. Its creation was a response to the increase of Eastern Catholics in Spanish territory, until then spiritually assisted by the various local dioceses. The

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already had a pastoral care department for the faithful of oriental rites, who in 2003 drew up the document Orientations for the pastoral care of Eastern Catholics in Spain. The Ordinariate has jurisdiction over all the Catholic faithful of the Eastern rites who live in Spain and may appoint vicars general, having appointed the presbyter Andrés Martínez Esteban for that position. Like the

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, the ordinary has a personal jurisdiction over the Eastern faithful that is cumulative with the diocesan bishops, from whom he must obtain consent for the decisions that pertain to their respective dioceses, and that retain secondary jurisdiction in minor matters (unlike other oriental ordinariates in what the ordinary has full jurisdiction). It must also require the consent of the primate and synods of the Eastern Churches in the decisions that involve them and obtain from them the clergy of the Ordinariate. Between May 2 and 4, 2017 the ordinary met with the priests of the 3 oriental rites present in Spain to advance in the constitution of the Ordinariate.

Territory

The Ordinariate has jurisdiction over the Catholic faithful of all Eastern rites living in Spain. Its seat is the city of

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Eastern Catholic communities in Spain

Eastern Catholics in Spain are mainly from the

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and from the

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, both of

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. There are also communities of the

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. A small

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Catholic community that existed in Spain no longer existed at the time of the erection of the Ordinariate, as its faithful migrated to other

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an countries.

Romanian Greek-Catholic Church

On March 16, 2009 the

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and Archbishop of

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appointed the priest Bogdan Vasile Buda as chaplain responsible for the Romanian community of Byzantine rite residing in the archdiocese of Madrid. In April 2009 he assigned a chapel of the parish of Our Lady of Sorrows in Madrid for the pastoral care of the Romanian faithful of the Byzantine rite of his archdiocese. The community is called Capelania Greco-Catolică din Madrid Botezul Domnului (Baptism of the Lord). On March 1, 2012 Bogdan Vasile Buda was named

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(protopop) by the Cardinal Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church,

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, and by the archiepiscopal major synod, becoming the national leader of the Romanian Greek Catholic faithful and priests of Spain (Greco-Romanian Catholic Deanery (arciprestazgo) of Madrid). The archpriest has 8 priests serving two parishes and 6 chaplaincies: *

Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante The Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante ( la, Oriolen(sis) – Lucentin(us)) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in the cities of Orihuela and Alicante in the Ecclesiastical province of Valencia in Spain. It was established as Dioce ...

: the chaplaincy is in the church of San Roque in

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, with masses once a month in the church of San Pedro and San Pablo de

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* Diocese of Almería: chaplaincy in the church of the Holy Family of

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(Sfânta Familie) * Diocese of Ciudad Real: in the church of the Remedios of

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Archdiocese of Granada The archdiocese of Granada ( la, archidioecesis Granatensis) is an ecclesiastical province of the Catholic Church in Spain.

: existing since 2006, the priest serves in the communities of Castell de Ferro (parish church Nuestra Señora del Carmen),

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(in the church of Carmen) and

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(in the Virgen del Carmen church, which has a pastoral with

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) *

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: a community in the Oratory of San Telm in

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* Diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño: Romanian Greek Catholic parish of San Nicolás in

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(Parohia Greco-Catolică Română Sfântul Nicolae) * Diocese of León: the Romanian Greek Catholic parish of León (Pogorârea Sfântului Spirit, in the church of the Railway Orphans of León and in the chapel of Caritas Diocesana de Benavente). Minor communities without a resident priest exist in the dioceses of

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and Zamora.

Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church

Ukrainian Greek Catholic communities have two parishes (Barcelona and Huelva) and 23 priests in 14 Spanish dioceses: *

Diocese of Albacete The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albacete ( la, Albasiten(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Albacete in the Ecclesiastical province of Toledo in Spain. History * November 2, 1949: Established as Diocese of Albacete from the Diocese of Cart ...

* Diocese of Almería: community of Campohermoso *

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: personal parish of Sant Josep, Santa Mònica and Sant Josafat * Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta *

Diocese of Cartagena The Diocese of Cartagena ( la, Carthaginen(sis) in Hispania) is the diocese of the city of Cartagena in the Ecclesiastical province of Granada in Spain.Murcia Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...

* Diocese of Córdoba *

Diocese of Cuenca The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuenca ( la, Conchen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Cuenca in the Ecclesiastical province of Toledo in Spain.

* Diocese of Gerona *

Archdiocese of Granada The archdiocese of Granada ( la, archidioecesis Granatensis) is an ecclesiastical province of the Catholic Church in Spain.

: in the parish of Santo Ángel Custodio *

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: have since 2015 in the parish of Saints Cyril and Methodius its own temple on which depends the community of

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(also with its own temple, the church of the Sisters of Mary Repairing) *

Diocese of Lleida The Diocese of Lleida, known as the Diocese of Lerida in English, (Latin, ''Ilerdensis'') is located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Lleida, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The diocese forms part of the ecclesiastical p ...

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: Ukrainian chaplaincy with headquarters in the parish of Our Lady of Good Success with 2000 parishioners, on which the chaplaincies depend in the parishes of Santa Teresa de Jesus de

and Virgen de Belén de

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: Ukrainian chaplaincy in the church of Santa Fe in Palma de Mallorca *

: community in Torrevieja * Archdiocese of Pamplona *

Diocese of Solsona The Roman Catholic Diocese of Solsona ( la, Celsonen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Solsona in the Ecclesiastical province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain. History * 19 July 1593: Established as Diocese of Solsona from the Diocese ...

Archdiocese of Tarragona The Archdiocese of Tarragona (Latin, ''Tarraconensis'') is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The archdiocese heads the ecclesias ...

Diocese of Urgell The Diocese of Urgell is a diocese in Catalonia (Spain) and Andorra in the historical County of Urgell,

* Archdiocese of Valencia *

Diocese of Vic The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic ( la, diocoesis Vicen(sis)) is a diocese with its seat in the city of Vic in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tarragona, ecclesiastical province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain. Vic Cathedral, Its cathedral is ...

: communities in

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and in

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Diocese of Vitoria The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vitoria ( la, Victorien(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Ecclesiastical province of Burgos in Spain. History * September 8, 1861: Established as Diocese of Vitoria from the Metropoli ...

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Bishop

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was

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for Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Spain from March 4, 2004 until January 7, 2009. He was succeeded since January 19, 2009 by the titular bishop of Egnazia, Dionisio Lachovicz, as apostolic visitor in

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and Spain, appointed by

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and based in

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. In 2009 it was estimated that in Spain there were 42,000 faithful in 45 communities of Ukrainians of Byzantine rite, attended by 17 priests.

Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

In Madrid there is the Syro Malabar community of Saint Thomas, with 80 members and a priest since 2009, and four other communities in Barcelona, Granada, Toledo and Valladolid, which together another 120 worshipers, ten priests and four nuns.

Ordinaries

* Carlos Osoro Sierra (since 2016.06.09)

References

External links

Gcatholic.org

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