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The Ordinariate for the Faithful of Eastern Rite in Spain is an
Ordinariate In the organisation of the Catholic Church and of the Anglican CommunionSee, for example, thAnglican Military Ordinariate in Canada an ordinariate is a pre- or pseudo-diocesan ecclesiastical structure, of geographical or personal nature, headed by a ...
(pseudo- diocese) for all non-Latin Catholic faithful living in Spain who belong to the particular Churches ''sui iuris'' of any
Eastern rite Eastern Rite or Eastern liturgical rite may refer to: * liturgical rite used in Eastern Christianity: ** liturgical rites of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which mainly use the Byzantine liturgical rites ** liturgical rites of the Eastern Catholic Ch ...
immediately subject to the Holy See.


History

It was erected on 9 June 2016 by Pope Francis, who also named the current
Archbishop of Madrid The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid is one of Spain's fourteen metropolitan archbishoprics. Since 28 August 2014 the archbishop of Madrid has been Carlos Osoro Sierra. Although Madrid has been the seat of the Spanish Crown since 1561, the di ...
, Carlos Osoro Sierra, 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 Spanish Episcopal Conference 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 Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France, 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 Madrid.


Eastern Catholic communities in Spain

Eastern Catholics in Spain are mainly from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and from the
Romanian Greek Catholic Church The Romanian Greek Catholic Church or Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic ( la, Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Romaniae; ro, Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică), sometimes called, in reference to its Byzantine Rite, the ...
, both of
Byzantine rite The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople. Th ...
. There are also communities of the
Syro Malabar Catholic Church lat, Ecclesia Syrorum-Malabarensium mal, മലബാറിലെ സുറിയാനി സഭ , native_name_lang=, image = St. Thomas' Cross (Chennai, St. Thomas Mount).jpg , caption = The Mar Thoma Nasrani Sl ...
. 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 European countries.


Romanian Greek-Catholic Church

On March 16, 2009 the
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and Archbishop of Madrid
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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
archpriest The ecclesiastical title of archpriest or archpresbyter belongs to certain priests with supervisory duties over a number of parishes. The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches and may be somewhat analogous ...
(protopop) by the Cardinal Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church,
Lucian Mureşan Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstitio ...
, 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
Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in th ...
, with masses once a month in the church of San Pedro and San Pablo de Torrevieja * Diocese of Almería: chaplaincy in the church of the Holy Family of Almería (Sfânta Familie) * Diocese of Ciudad Real: in the church of the Remedios of
Ciudad Real Ciudad Real (, ; en, "Royal City") is a municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha, capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It is the 5th most populated municipality in the region. History It was founde ...
* Archdiocese of Granada: existing since 2006, the priest serves in the communities of
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(parish church Nuestra Señora del Carmen), Motril (in the church of Carmen) and
Granada Granada (,, DIN 31635, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the fo ...
(in the Virgen del Carmen church, which has a pastoral with gypsies) *
Diocese of Mallorca The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mallorca ( la, Maioricen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Palma, Majorca in the Ecclesiastical province of Valencia in Spain. History * 450: Established as Diocese of Majorca * 1237: Restored as Dioce ...
: a community in the Oratory of San Telm in
Palma de Mallorca Palma (; ; also known as ''Palma de Mallorca'', officially between 1983–88, 2006–08, and 2012–16) is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situate ...
* Diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño: Romanian Greek Catholic parish of San Nicolás in Calahorra (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
Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municipalities ...
, Getafe 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 * Diocese of Almería: community of Campohermoso *
Archdiocese of Barcelona The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona is a Latin rite Catholic metropolitan archbishopric in northeastern Spain's Catalonia region. The cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor basilica: Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i ...
: 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 * 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: in the parish of Santo Ángel Custodio * Diocese of Huelva: have since 2015 in the parish of Saints Cyril and Methodius its own temple on which depends the community of Seville (also with its own temple, the church of the Sisters of Mary Repairing) * Diocese of Lleida *
Archdiocese of Madrid The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid is one of Spain's fourteen metropolitan archbishoprics. Since 28 August 2014 the archbishop of Madrid has been Carlos Osoro Sierra. Although Madrid has been the seat of the Spanish Crown since 1561, the di ...
: 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 Getafe and Virgen de Belén de
Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municipalities ...
* Diocese of Málaga *
Diocese of Mallorca The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mallorca ( la, Maioricen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Palma, Majorca in the Ecclesiastical province of Valencia in Spain. History * 450: Established as Diocese of Majorca * 1237: Restored as Dioce ...
: Ukrainian chaplaincy in the church of Santa Fe in Palma de Mallorca *
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 ...
: community in Torrevieja * Archdiocese of Pamplona * Diocese of Solsona * Archdiocese of Tarragona * Diocese of Urgell * Archdiocese of Valencia * Diocese of Vic: communities in Torelló 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 ...
* Archdiocese of Zaragoza Bishop Hlib Lonchyna was apostolic visitor 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 Bishop Dionisio Paulo Lachovicz, O.S.B.M. ( uk, Діонісій Павло Ляхович; born 2 July 1946) is a Brazilian-born Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was an Apostolic Visitor for the Ukrainian Greek Catholics , native_name ...
, as apostolic visitor in Italy and Spain, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI and based in Rome. 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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