Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe
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The Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Eastern Europe is an Ordinariate (quasi-diocese) of the Armenian Catholic Church (Eastern Catholic, Armenian Rite in Armenian language) for its faithful in certain Eastern European ex-Soviet countries without proper Ordinary for their particular church sui iuris.
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Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe | |
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Location | |
Country | Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia[1] |
Statistics | |
Population - Catholics | (as of 2016) 618,000 |
Parishes | 44 |
Information | |
Rite | Armenian Rite |
Established | 13 July 1991 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Holy Martyrs, Gyumri |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Patriarch | Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian |
Bishop | Sede Vacante |
Apostolic Administrator | Fr. Mikael Bassalé, I.C.P.B. |
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It is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See (notably the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches), not part of any ecclesiastical province.