Apostolic Exarchate of Harbin
Harbinen(sis)
Eastern exarchate immediately subject to the Holy See · Byzantine tradition · Harbin, China
The Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Harbin is a dormant Byzantine rite jurisdiction of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, established in 1928 by the decree Fidelium Russorum for Russian emigres in Harbin, China. Its cathedra was the Cathedral of St. Vladimir in Harbin, now in ruins, with additional churches once in Shanghai and Beijing. The exarchate has no current ordinary.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern exarchate immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Byzantine tradition
- Erected
- 20 May 1928
- Latin
- Harbinen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000324
The bishop
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of St. Vladimir, Harbin stands in Harbin, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
A dormant apostolic exarchate of the Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, the Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Harbin was based in the Chinese city of Harbin, with its cathedra in the Cathedral of St. Vladimir, now in ruins; the exarchate also maintained churches in Shanghai and Beijing. From the 1890s to the 1930s Harbin drew Russian immigrants, first railway workers and later white émigrés fleeing the Revolution, the Civil War and the rise of Stalin.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- . . . . ., China
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].