Exarchate

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An exarchate is any territorial jurisdiction (secular or ecclesiastical) whose ruler is described as an exarch.

Administration of the secular Byzantine Empire[]

• Exarchate of Africa
• Exarchate of Ravenna

Ecclesiastical administration[]

Catholicism[]

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[]

• Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Palestine
• Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal exarchates[]

• Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Kuwait
• Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Istanbul
• Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq

Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal exarchates[]

• Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk

Eastern Orthodoxy[]

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[]

• American Exarchate of Mexico

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[]

• Eparchy

References[]