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The Ruthenian ((Greek) Catholic) Apostolic Exarchate of Czech Republic, or shorter Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic, is an Eastern Catholic institution overseeing the Catholics of the Ruthenian Catholic Church, using the localized Byzantine Rite in Archaic Slavonic language and living in the Czech Republic. Its cathedral episcopal see is Katedrála sv. Klimenta in the Czech national capital Prague. == History == On March 13, 1996, Pope John Paul II proclaimed a new Apostolic Exarchate (exempt pre-diocese) for Eastern Catholics of Byzantine Rite in the Czech Republic under the rules of the Apostolic See on territory previously covered for the Byzantine Rite by the Slovak Catholic Metropolitanate sui juris of Prešov. The Apostolic Exarchate provides a legal organisation for Catholics of the Ruthenian Church living in the Czech Republic. The head of the church is a bishop, who has the same rights as a diocesan bishop. An exarchate is the initial stage of an eparchy (the equivalent of a diocese in the Latin rites), which is exempt, i.e. not part of any ecclesiastical province but directly subject to the Holy See (Rome), and supervised by the Roman Congregation for the Eastern Churches, a Roman Curia dicastery (department) acting on behalf of the Pope. == Statistics == According to the 2011 census there were 9,927 Byzantine Catholics in the Czech Republic.〔(Obyvatelstvo podle náboženské víry podle krajů - podrobné údaje ) - population according to religious faith according to regions〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruthenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Czech Republic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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