An exarchate is any territorial jurisdiction, either secular or ecclesiastical, whose ruler is called an
exarch. The term originates from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
word ''arkhos'', meaning a leader, ruler, or chief.
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
Emperor Justinian I created the first exarchates during his
invasion of the former Western Roman Empire, and the term is still used for naming some of the smaller communities of
Eastern Rite Catholics as well as
Eastern Orthodox Christians
Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...
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Administration of the secular Byzantine Empire
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Exarchate of Africa
The Exarchate of Africa was a division of the Byzantine Empire around Carthage that encompassed its possessions on the Western Mediterranean. Ruled by an exarch (viceroy), it was established by the Emperor Maurice in the late 580s and survive ...
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Exarchate of Ravenna
The Exarchate of Ravenna ( la, Exarchatus Ravennatis; el, Εξαρχάτο της Ραβέννας) or of Italy was a lordship of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) in Italy, from 584 to 751, when the last exarch was put to death by the ...
Ecclesiastical administration
Catholicism
Apostolic exarchates in the Eastern Catholic churches
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Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece
The Apostolic Exarchate of Greece is a Greek Byzantine Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or apostolic exarchate of the Catholic Church in Greece. As there are no metropolitan sees in the Greek Byzantine Church, it is exempt directly t ...
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Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul
The Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul (or of Constantinople) (''Exarchatus Apostolicus Constantinopolitanus'') is the senior of two missionary pre-diocesan Eastern Catholic jurisdictions that constitute the Greek Byzantine Catholic Ch ...
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Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia
The Eparchy of San Nicola di Ruski Krstur ( sr, Крстурска гркокатоличка епархија) is a Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Serbia. It was founded ...
(until 19 January 2013 was named Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro)
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Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic
The Apostolic Exarchate of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic is an Eastern Catholic institution overseeing Catholics of byzantine-slavonic rite in the Czech Republic. It uses the localized Byzantine Rite in archaic Church Slavonic ...
Maronite Catholic Patriarchal exarchates
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Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan
Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan is a patriarchal exarchate of the Maronite Church, immediately subject to the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Maronites. In 2018, there were 1,000 members. It is currently governed by Archeparch Mo ...
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal exarchates
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Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Kuwait
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Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Istanbul
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Istanbul is an immediate Patriarchal Exarchate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Istanbul. It reports directly to the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch.
History
Since 1946, Melkite Parish in Ista ...
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Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq
Melkite (Greek) Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq (informally Iraq of the (Greek-)Melkites) is a Patriarchal exarchate (Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction) of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church ''sui iuris'' (Byzantine Rite ...
Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal exarchates
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Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk
The Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk (Lutsk of the Ukrainians) is an Archiepiscopal Exarchate (rare Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction, comparable to a Patriarchal exarchate, Apostolic exarchate or Latin Apostolic vicariate; both other ...
Eastern Orthodoxy
Exarchates of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
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Exarchate of Metsovo {{no footnotes, date=July 2014
The first available information about the ecclesiastical organization of Metsovo and its environs points to the fact that, in the 14th century, it was part of the Metropolis of Ioannina. Furthermore, there are accounts ...
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Exarchate of the Philippines
The Exarchate of the Philippines (Greek: ''Εξάρχεια των Φιλιππίνων''; Tagalog: ''Eksarkado ng Filipinas''; Spanish: ''Exarcado de Filipinas''; Pampangan: ''Eksarkadu ning Filipinas''; Zambal: ''Iksarkado nin Filipinas''; ...
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Exarchate of Western Europe (pending for dissolution)
* Ukrainian Exarchate (1620–1685)
Exarchates of the Orthodox Church in America
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American Exarchate of Mexico
Exarchates of the Russian Orthodox Church
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Belarusian Exarchate
The Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC; be, Беларуская праваслаўная царква, russian: Белорусская православная церковь) is the official name of the Belarusian Exarchate ( be, Беларуск ...
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Exarch Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Spain and Portugal
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Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe
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Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia
The Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia (PESEA, russian: Патриарший экзархат в Юго-Восточной Азии) is an exarchate created by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) on 28 December 2018.
The primate of the PESEA ...
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Russian Exarchate of North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
(historical)
* Little Russian Exarchate (1685–1718, 1743–1767) → Ukrainian Exarchate (1921–1990)
See also
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Eparchy
Eparchy ( gr, ἐπαρχία, la, eparchía / ''overlordship'') is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity, that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity. Eparchy is governed by an ''eparch'', who is a bishop. Depending on the ...
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