Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Grecia
Graeciae
Eastern ordinariate immediately subject to the Holy See · Armenian Church · Grecia, Greece
The Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Greece was established on 21 December 1925 by Pope Pius XI to serve Armenian Catholics who arrived in Greece during the First World War. It is exempt, depending directly on the Holy See through the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches. After a decade under apostolic administration, Mikael Bassale, I.C.P.B., was appointed Ordinary on 25 January 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern ordinariate immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Armenian Church
- Erected
- 21 December 1925
- Latin
- Graeciae
- Annuario code
- 001000322
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 200
- Population
- 2,013
- Catholic share
- 9.9%
- Extent
- 131,957 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Mikael Bassale, I.C.P.B.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Athens stands in Grecia, 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
For its faithful in Greece, the Armenian Catholic Church maintains the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Greece, also called the Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Greece (informally, Greece of the Armenians), an ecclesiastical territory for faithful of the eastern rite of the Catholic Church. It belongs to no ecclesiastical province, being exempt to the Holy See and specifically to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].