The Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia was a short-lived (1931–44) pre-diocesan
Eastern Catholic
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(notably
Byzantine Rite
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Th ...
,
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state langu ...
) jurisdiction in three parts of present
Ukraine
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.
History
* Established in 1931 as
Apostolic Exarchate
An exarch (;
from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος ''exarchos'', meaning “leader”) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.
In the late Roman Empire and ea ...
of
Volhynia
Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...
,
Polesia
Polesia, Polesie, or Polesye, uk, Полісся (Polissia), pl, Polesie, russian: Полесье (Polesye) is a natural and historical region that starts from the farthest edge of Central Europe and encompasses Eastern Europe, including East ...
and
Pidliashia / Wolhynien, Polissia und Pidliashia (in German)
* Suppressed in 1944 after Stalin's
Red Army
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reconquered the area.
Its only incumbent was:
* Blessed Bishop
Mykola Czarneckyj,
Redemptorists
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(C.SS.R.) (born Ukraine), ''Apostolic Exarch of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia of the Ukrainians'' (Ukraine) (1939–1944),
Titular Bishop
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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 an ...
of
Lebedus
Lebedus or Lebedos ( grc, Λέβεδος) was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, located south of Smyrna, Klazomenai and neighboring Teos and before Ephesus, which is further south. It was on the coast, ninety stadia (16.65 km) ...
(1931.01.16 – death 1959.04.02).
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine
The Catholic Church in Ukraine comprises
* one Latin ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropolitan archbishop of Lviv, with 6 suffragan dioceses each headed by a bishop
* a more extensive hierarchy of the Eastern Catholic consisting of
** a ...
Sources and external links
GCatholic - data for all sections
Former Eastern Catholic dioceses
Apostolic exarchates
History of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
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