Exarchate
An exarchate is any territorial jurisdiction, either secular or ecclesiastical, whose ruler is called an exarch. Byzantine 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.
Administration of the secular Byzantine Empire
Ecclesiastical administration
Apostolic exarchates in the Eastern Catholic churches
- Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece
- Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul
- Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians
- Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia (until 19 January 2013 was named Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro)
- Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic
Maronite Catholic Patriarchal exarchates
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal exarchates
Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal exarchates
Exarchates of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
- Exarchate of Metsovo (historical)
- Exarchate of the Philippines
- Exarchate of Western Europe (pending for dissolution)
- Ukrainian Exarchate (1620–1685)
Exarchates of the Orthodox Church in America
Exarchates of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Belarusian Exarchate
- Exarch Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Spain and Portugal
- Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe
- Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia
- Russian Exarchate of North America (historical)
- Little Russian Exarchate (1685–1718, 1743–1767) → Ukrainian Exarchate (1921–1990)
See also
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