Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia Гркокатолички апостолски егзархат у Србији |
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Greek Catholic Cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Ruski Krstur, Serbia
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Location | |
Country | Serbia |
Territory | Serbia |
Metropolitan | exempt, directly subjected to the Holy See |
Statistics | |
Population - Catholics |
22,085 (2013) |
Parishes | 21 (2013) |
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Denomination | Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia |
Rite | Byzantine Rite |
Established | (2003) 2013 |
Cathedral | Greek Catholic Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Ruski Krstur, Serbia |
Secular priests | 20 (2013) |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Đura Džudžar |
Metropolitan Archbishop | exempt, directly subjected to the Holy See |
The Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia (Serbian: Гркокатолички апостолски егзархат у Србији) is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church for Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Serbia. It was founded in 2003 as the "Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro" and reduced to the territory of Serbia in 2013. Since 2003, head of the Exarchate is bishop Đura Džudžar.
The Exarchate is part of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia, together with the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci in Croatia. In terms if jurisdiction, the Exarchate it is exempt and directly subjected to the Holy See. There are no ecclesiastical provinces for it to belong to in the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia, which lacks a Metropolitan of its own, since the Eparchy of Križevci (the only other jurisdiction in the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia) is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb.
Until 2001, the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci had full jurisdiction over all Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Rite throughout the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia, including all of its successor states: Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.