Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k, Ukraine (Ukrainian Rite)

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Ukrainian (Byzantine)

Type: Archiepiscopal Exarchate

Name: Donets’k

Subject to the Major Archbishop

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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History

2002.01.11: Established as Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k–Kharkiv / Donets’k–Charkiv (Italiano) (from Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv–Vyshhorod)
2014.04.02: Renamed as Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k (lost territory to establish Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv)

Present Prelates

Archiepiscopal Exarch (2024.10.17 – ...):

Bishop Maksim Ryabukha, S.D.B. (44)

Titular Bishop of Stephaniacum

Ordinaries

Archiepiscopal Exarchs of Donets’k (Ukrainian Rite)

Bishop Maksim Ryabukha, S.D.B. (44)
(2024.10.17 – ...)

Archiepiscopal Exarch of Donets’k of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)
Titular Bishop of Stephaniacum

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Born:	1980.05.18 (Lviv, Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:	2007.08.04
Consecrated Bishop:	2022.12.22

Auxiliary Bishop of Donets’k of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2022.09.19 – 2024.10.17)

Titular Bishop of Stephaniacum (2022.09.19 – ...)

Archiepiscopal Exarch of Donets’k of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2024.10.17 – ...)

Bishop Stephan Meniok, C.SS.R. (75)
(2014.04.02 – 2024.10.17)

Titular Bishop of Acarassus
Archiepiscopal Exarch emeritus of Donets’k of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

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Born:	1949.08.19 (Nakonechne, Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:	1981.07.08
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.02.15

Archiepiscopal Exarch of Donets’k–Kharkiv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) ([2001.07.05] 2002.01.11 – 2014.04.02)

Titular Bishop of Acarassus (2002.01.11 – ...)

Archiepiscopal Exarch of Donets’k of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2014.04.02 – 2024.10.17)

Archiepiscopal Exarchs of Donets’k–Kharkiv (Ukrainian Rite)

Bishop Stephan Meniok, C.SS.R. (75)
(2002.01.11 – 2014.04.02)

(see above)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Maksim Ryabukha, S.D.B. (44) (2022.09.19 – 2024.10.17)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Wasyl Ihor Medwit, O.S.B.M. (2009.03.17 – 2013.10.25)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Virgin of Mercy, Donetsk (Донецьк), Donetsk Oblast
Pro-Cathedral: Pro-Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel, Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя), Zaporizhia Oblast
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Odessa (←), Kharkiv (↖), Russia (↗), Kazakhstan and Central Asia (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 16,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 87 parishes

Personnel: 54 priests (48 diocesan, 6 religious), 2 deacons, 13 religious (6 brothers, 7 sisters), 5 seminarians

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