Apostolic exarchate
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concept
An apostolic exarchate is a type of territorial jurisdiction in certain Eastern Catholic Churches, similar to an apostolic vicariate in the Latin Church, established in missionary or transitional regions and governed by an exarch under the authority of the Pope.
Observed surface forms (1)
- Eastern Catholic exarchate ×2
Instances (3)
- Syro-Malankara Catholic exarchates via concept surface "Eastern Catholic exarchate"
- Apostolic Exarchate of Greece for Byzantine-Rite Romanians
- Melkite Greek Catholic exarchates via concept surface "Eastern Catholic exarchate"