Exarch

The Exarchate is a church management area of ​​the Orthodox and Catholic- Uniate churches, it is headed by an exarch.

The Exarchate be entertained for believers outside of the ordinary areas of their churches (see Diaspora ) and may extend over one or more countries. There are, for example, a Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Germany, but also an Apostolic Exarchate of the Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine rite.

The name is derived from the Byzantine administrative district Exarchate.

Hierarch of the Exarchate: the Exarch

An Exarch is a bishop Eastern Christian character and can be described as diaspora bishop. If the Exarch a bishop of a united with the Roman Catholic Church church, he is under its patriarch or head and the Apostolic See. He is the actual bishop for the Catholic Eastern Christian coinage, whose church is in union with the Roman Catholic Church. The area is the exarch not bound by the diocesan boundaries of the Roman Catholics.