Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians
The Apostolic Exarchate Germany and Scandinavia (Latin: Exarchatus apostolicus Germaniae et Scandiae ) is located in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden Apostolic Exarchate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, headquartered in Munich.
History
1927 taught Andrej Scheptyzkyj, the Metropolitan of Halyc and Archbishop of Lviv, in Berlin a deanery pastoral care for Catholic Ukrainians. The first pastor of this deanery was Werhun Petro, who was appointed apostolic visitor and administrator of the Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Germany 1940. In 1945 he was arrested by the Soviets and deported to the USSR, where he died in 1957.
1947, Pope Pius XII. the pastoral care of the Catholic Ukrainians living abroad again. It took over the then Apostolic Visitor in Western Europe, Archbishop Ivan Buczko, also directing the pastoral care for the people living in Germany Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine rite.
On April 17, 1959, Pope John XXIII. the Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Germany. First Apostolic Exarch was Plato V. Kornyljak who received episcopal ordination on July 7 of the same year. He led the Exarchate until his retirement in 1996.
The jurisdiction of the Apostolic Exarch extended at first only on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1984, it was extended to the countries of Scandinavia.
Organization
The power of jurisdiction of the Apostolic Exarch is both territorial and personal: He oversees all Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests and lay people in Germany and the Scandinavian countries. The Apostolic Exarch is a member of the German Bishops' Conference. Its headquarters are in Munich. The Exarchate of the Cathedral is the Church of St. Andrew and Maria Schutz in Munich.
In Germany the Exarchate is divided into four deaneries with 52 Seelsorgstellen, several of which spatially located nearby are combined into one parish at a time. In Sweden, there are seven Seelsorgstellen, in Denmark. To Exarchate includes five nunneries of the Byzantine rite.
The Exarchate maintains various charitable and scientific institutions as well as the newspaper "Christian voice".
Apostolic exarch
- Plato V. Kornyljak (1959-1996)
- Petro Kryk (since 2001)