An exarchate is any territorial jurisdiction, either secular or ecclesiastical, whose ruler is called an exarch. The term originates from the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

word ''arkhos'', meaning a leader, ruler, or chief.

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

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 Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...

Administration of the secular Byzantine Empire

Exarchate of Africa The Exarchate of Africa was a division of the Byzantine Empire around Carthage that encompassed its possessions on the Western Mediterranean. Ruled by an exarch (viceroy), it was established by the Emperor Maurice in the late 580s and survive ...

Exarchate of Ravenna The Exarchate of Ravenna ( la, Exarchatus Ravennatis; el, Εξαρχάτο της Ραβέννας) or of Italy was a lordship of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) in Italy, from 584 to 751, when the last exarch was put to death by the ...

Ecclesiastical administration

Catholicism

Apostolic exarchates in the Eastern Catholic churches

Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece The Apostolic Exarchate of Greece is a Greek Byzantine Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or apostolic exarchate of the Catholic Church in Greece. As there are no metropolitan sees in the Greek Byzantine Church, it is exempt directly t ...

Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul The Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul (or of Constantinople) (''Exarchatus Apostolicus Constantinopolitanus'') is the senior of two missionary pre-diocesan Eastern Catholic jurisdictions that constitute the Greek Byzantine Catholic Ch ...

* Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians *

Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia The Eparchy of San Nicola di Ruski Krstur ( sr, Крстурска гркокатоличка епархија) is a Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Serbia. It was founded ...

(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 Istanbul is an immediate Patriarchal Exarchate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Istanbul. It reports directly to the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch. History Since 1946, Melkite Parish in Ista ...

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq Melkite (Greek) Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq (informally Iraq of the (Greek-)Melkites) is a Patriarchal exarchate (Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction) of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church ''sui iuris'' (Byzantine Rite ...

Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal exarchates

Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk The Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk (Lutsk of the Ukrainians) is an Archiepiscopal Exarchate (rare Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction, comparable to a Patriarchal exarchate, Apostolic exarchate or Latin Apostolic vicariate; both other ...

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 North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

(historical) * Little Russian Exarchate (1685–1718, 1743–1767) → Ukrainian Exarchate (1921–1990)

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