Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul, Turkiye (Greek Rite)

Continents: East Europe, Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Greek (Byzantine)

Type: Apostolic Exarchate

Name: Istanbul / Constantinople (English) / Constantinopoli (Italiano) / Constantinopolitan(us) (Latin)

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Neighbouring Dioceses: Greece (←), Saint John XXIII of Sofia (↖)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

History

1911.06.11: Established as Apostolic Exarchate of Turkey of Europe (English) / Turchia d’Europa (Italiano)
1932.06.11: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Exarchate of Greece
1936: Renamed as Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul / Constantinople (English) / Constantinopoli (Italiano) / Constantinopolitan(us) (Latin)

Present Prelates

Apostolic Exarch:

vacant

Apostolic Administrator (2021.09.14 – ...):

Bishop Massimiliano Palinuro (50)

Vicar Apostolic of Istanbul (Turkiye)

Patriarchal Administrator of Istanbul of the Greek-Melkites (Turkiye)

Ordinaries

Apostolic Exarchs of Istanbul (Greek Rite)

Bishop Massimiliano Palinuro (50)
(Apostolic Administrator 2021.09.14 – ...)

Archbishop Lorenzo Piretto, O.P. (81)
(Apostolic Administrator 2020.12.24 – 2021.09.14)

Bishop Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzalez, O.F.M.
(Apostolic Administrator 2016.04.16 – 2020.12.23)

Bishop Louis-Armel Pelâtre, A.A. (84)
(Apostolic Administrator 1999 – 2016.04.16)

Fr. Domenico Caloyera, O.P. (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 1957.01.28 – 1973)

Fr. Domenico Caloyera, O.P. (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator sede plena 1955.05.27 – 1957.01.28)

Bishop Dionisio Leonida Varouhas
(1932.06.11 – 1957.01.28)

Born:	1889.01.30 (Greece)
Ordained Priest:	1911.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1932.07.10
Died:	1957.01.28 († 67)

Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis (1932.06.11 – 1957.01.28)

Apostolic Exarch of Istanbul of the Greeks (Turkiye) (1932.06.11 – 1957.01.28)

Apostolic Exarchs of Turkey of Europe (Greek Rite)

Bishop George Calavassy
(1920.07.13 – 1932.06.11)

Δυω και ανατελλω

Born:	1881.02.02 (Greece)
Ordained Priest:	1906.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1920.08.15
Died:	1957.11.07 († 76)

Apostolic Exarch of Turkey of Europe of the Greeks (Turkiye) (1920.07.13 – 1932.06.11)

Titular Bishop of Theodorium of the Greeks (1920.07.13 – 1933)

Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece) (1932.06.11 – 1957.11.07)

Titular Bishop of Theodoropolis (1933 – 1957.11.07)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 14 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 1 parish, 10 missions

Personnel: 32 priests (3 diocesan, 29 religious), 65 religious (33 brothers, 32 sisters)

Greek Apostolic Exarchate of

Istanbul

Turkiye

History

Present Prelates

Ordinaries

Statistics (2022.12.31)