Eparchy of Parma (Ruthenian)
Parmen(sis) Ruthenorum
Suffragan eparchy · Ruthenian Catholic Church · Parma, Ohio, United States
A Ruthenian Greek Catholic eparchy of the Byzantine Rite covering the midwestern United States, erected in 1969 with its cathedral in Parma, Ohio. It is a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh and is led by Eparch Robert M. Pipta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Ruthenian Catholic Church
- Erected
- 21 February 1969
- Latin
- Parmen(sis) Ruthenorum
- Patron
- St. John the Baptist
- Annuario code
- 001002548
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 9,020
- Population
- 2,009
- Priests
- 38
- Catholics per priest
- 237
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
- Eparch
- Robert Mark Pipta
- Born
- 7 April 1967
- Birthplace
- Anaheim
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
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist stands in Parma, 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.
The province of Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh
A suffragan of Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh.
The sees of this province:
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Covering the midwestern part of the United States, the Eparchy of Parma (Latin: Eparchia Parmensis Ruthenorum) is a diocese of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church whose liturgies follow the Byzantine Rite. Its episcopal seat is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Parma, Ohio, and it stands as a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh within the ecclesiastical province of Pittsburgh, a metropolis dependent on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches. The see is sometimes styled the "Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma", after the title the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church uses in the United States.
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].