Exarchate

Summary

An exarchate is any territorial jurisdiction, either secular or ecclesiastical, whose ruler is called an exarch. Byzantine Emperor Maurice created the first exarchates in the recently reconquered provinces of the former Western Empire. 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 edit

 
The 2 Eastern Roman Exarchates in 600 A.D.





Ecclesiastical administration edit

Catholicism edit

Apostolic exarchates in the Eastern Catholic churches edit

Maronite Catholic Patriarchal exarchates edit

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal exarchates edit

Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal exarchates edit

Eastern Orthodoxy edit

Exarchates of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople edit

Exarchates of the Orthodox Church in America edit

Exarchates of the Russian Orthodox Church edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Gasparri, Stefano (21 November 2017). "Chapter 1: The First Dukes and the Origins of Venice". Venice and Its Neighbors from the 8th to 11th Century. Brill. pp. 5–26. ISBN 978-90-04-35361-9. Retrieved 1 February 2024.