Croatian Greek Catholic Church

Eparchy of Križevci Dioecesis Crisiensis Križevačka eparhija
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Križevci, Croatia
Location
Country	Croatia
Territory	Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ecclesiastical province	Zagreb
Metropolitan	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb
Statistics
Population - Catholics	(as of 2013) 21,270
Parishes	44
Information
Denomination	Byzantine Church of Croatia and Serbia
Rite	Byzantine Rite
Established	17 June 1777
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Križevci, Croatia
Co-cathedral	Co-Cathedral of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Zagreb
Secular priests	28
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Nikola Kekić
Metropolitan Archbishop	Josip Bozanić
Website
krizevchi.hbk.hr

The Eparchy of Križevci is an eparchy (diocese) of Catholic Church for Eastern Catholics of Byzantine Rite in Croatia, with seat in Križevci. It is part of the Byzantine Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia, an Eastern Catholic Church sui iuris of the Byzantine Rite which is in full union with the Roman Catholic Church. The Eparchy is currently headed by Bishop Nikola Kekić, who was appointed in 2009.

The Eparchy has jurisdiction over Eastern Catholics of Byzantine Rite in Croatia, and also Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It mostly gathers its faithful among ethnic Croats in central and eastern Croatia, and among the Rusyns in eastern Slavonia, with a small Serbian minority. The liturgy used by the Eparchy is the Slavonic form of the Byzantine Rite, using the Old Church Slavonic language and the Cyrillic alphabet.

The Ottoman wars in Europe caused a number of Christian refugees, Orthodox Serbs, to migrate to the Military Frontier of the Habsburg Monarchy (in south-central Croatia and in most of Slavonia) during the 16th and 17th centuries. In particular after the Ottoman defeat in Battle of Sisak of 1593, the Habsburg tried to established an ecclesiastical jurisdiction in full communion with Rome and separated from the Serbian Orthodox Church. After negotiations, it was decided to establish a particular Byzantine Rite jurisdiction in form of an apostolic vicariate based in the monastery of Marča (located near Ivanić Grad).