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Eastern exarchate immediately subject to the Holy See Repubblica Ceca, Czechia

Apostolic Exarchate of Repubblica Ceca

Reipublicae Cechae

Apostolic exarchate of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church covering the Czech Republic, with its seat in Prague. Erected by Pope John Paul II on 13 March 1996 and immediately subject to the Holy See through the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches. The see has been vacant since Bishop Ladislav Hucko died on 14 January 2025.

On the map

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Repubblica Ceca, Czechia, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1996
Priests
36
Territory
78,870 km²

Parishes and churches

20 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

No bishop is recorded for this diocese. See the bishop.

The cathedral

St. Clement's Cathedral, Prague stands in Repubblica Ceca, 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

Pope John Paul II erected the Apostolic Exarchate of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, a jurisdiction of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, on 13 March 1996. In the years after the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the same pope directed that the married men who had been secretly and irregularly ordained as Roman Catholic priests by underground bishop Felix Maria Davídek undergo conditional re-ordination, followed by permanent liturgical transfer to the Byzantine Rite Exarchate.