The Ukrainian Catholic ''Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa – Crimea'' was established on 11 January 2002 from the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv – Vyshhorod (which has now become the

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). It has been divided on 13 February 2014, in Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa ( la, Archiepiscopi Exarchatus Odessana) and Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Crimea. The only archiepiscopal exarch was Archbishop Vasyl Ivasiuk, now transferred transfer to the see of the eparchy of

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- Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians. They are two of the only five archiepiscopal exarchates which exist in the world, all part of the particular

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and following the Byzantine

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Status as Archiepiscopal Exarchate

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s have similar authority to that of

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s, Archiepiscopal Exarchates similarly have roughly the same status in canon law as Patriarchal Exarchates.

External links

Catholic Hierarchy – Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa (Ukrainian)

* [http://www.ugcc.od.ua/the-news/135-2014-02-15-21-02-04 Українська Греко-Католицька Церква: Синод єпископів УГКЦ розділив Одесько-Кримський екзархат]
Holy See Press Office: Other pontifical acts February 13, 2014
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