Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto

Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto
Church of the Transfiguration of our Lord in Markham, former Cathedral Church of the Eparchy.
Location
Country	Canada
Ecclesiastical province	Immediately Subject to the Holy See
Statistics
Population - Catholics	(as of 2013) 4,800
Parishes	5
Information
Sui iuris church	Slovak Catholic Church
Rite	Byzantine Rite
Established	13 October 1980
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Eparch	John Pazak

Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto (Latin Eparchia Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii Torontini Slovachorum ritus Byzantini, Slovak Torontská slovenská gréckokatolícka eparchia svätých Cyrila a Metoda) is an Eparchy for Byzantine Catholics of Slovak origin in Canada. It is part of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church sui iuris, however it is not suffragan to the metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov, but it is subject immediately to the Congregation for the Eastern Churches. Its territory is extended on the whole territory of Canada.

The Eparchy was erected on 13 October 1980 by Pope John Paul II, who though Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, appoints the heads of some of the Eastern Catholic Churches (after consulting with the Congregations for Bishops and of the Eastern and Mission Churches, as well as the given area's Eastern Church and Western bishops, and sometimes after an election has been held by the given Church's synod council) when they lack the full structure of an eastern church such as having a patriarch, catholicos or archbishop major. Its Patron Saints are Saints Cyril and Methodius. The first bishop was Michael Rusnak, C.SS.R. (from 13 October 1980 to 11 November 1996). The eparchy is currently a vacant see (sede vacante), because on 7 May 2016, Pope Francis transferred Bishop John Stephen Pazak, who had been in office since December 2000, as Bishop (Eparch) of the Eparchy of Holy Mary of Protection of Phoenix of the Ruthenians, in Phoenix, Arizona, to serve as Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto until the appointment of a new Bishop (Eparch).