Apostolic Exarchate of Turchia
Patriarchal exarchate · Syriac Catholic Church · Turchia, Türkiye
Syriac Catholic patriarchal exarchate for Turkey, established in 1991 on territory previously administered as a patriarchal vicariate, under the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch. Since 2018 the Istanbul community has used Sacre Coeur Church in Besiktas, leased from the government for 49 years.
The see
- Rank
- Patriarchal exarchate
- Tradition
- Syriac Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1991
- Annuario code
- 001000544
The see in figures
- Extent
- 814,578 km²
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
- Patriarchal Exarch
- Orhan Abdulahad Canli
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
Church of the Sacred Heart, Istanbul stands in Turchia, 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
The Syriac Catholic Church's presence in Turkey takes the form of the Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Turkey, sometimes called informally Turkey of the Syriacs. That church, an Eastern Catholic particular church, celebrates its liturgy in the Syriac language according to the West Syrian Rite, and this exarchate falls under the jurisdiction of the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Sacre Coeur Ayazpaşa Saray, Arkasi Sokak 15, 34437 Taksim-Istanbul, Türkiye
- Telephone
- [0212]243.25.21; fax 249.02.61
- [email protected]
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].