Apostolic Exarchate of Greece, Greece (Greek Rite)

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Greek (Byzantine)

Type: Apostolic Exarchate

Name: Greece / Græciæ (Latin)

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Holy Trinity

History

1932.06.11: Established as Apostolic Exarchate of Greece / Græciæ (Latin) (from Apostolic Exarchate of Turkey of Europe)

Contact Info

Address: Odos Acharnon 246, 11253 Athina, Greece

Phone: (210) 86-70-170

Present Prelates

Apostolic Exarch (2016.02.02 – ...):

Bishop Manuel Nin, O.S.B. (67)

Titular Bishop of Carcabia

Ordinaries

Apostolic Exarchs of Greece (Greek Rite)

Bishop Manuel Nin, O.S.B. (67)
(2016.02.02 – ...)

Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece)
Titular Bishop of Carcabia

Ο Λόγος σάρξ εγένετο

Born:	1956.08.20 (El Vendrell, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1998.04.18
Consecrated Bishop:	2016.04.15

Titular Bishop of Carcabia (2016.02.02 – ...)

Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece) (2016.02.02 – ...)

Bishop Dimitrios Salachas
(2008.04.23 – 2016.02.02)

Ουκ ηλθον διακονηθηναι, αλλα διακονησαι

Born:	1939.06.07 (Athens, Greece)
Ordained Priest:	1964.02.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.05.24
Died:	2023.10.16 (Athens, Greece † 84)

Priest of Greece of the Greeks (Greece) (1964.02.09 – 2008.04.23)

Titular Bishop of Carcabia (2008.04.23 – 2012.05.14)

Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece) (2008.04.23 – 2016.02.02)

Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis (2012.05.14 – 2023.10.16)

Member of Commission for the Study of the Reform of the Matrimonial Processes in Canon Law (2014.08.27 – 2015)

Bishop Anárghyros Printesis
(1975.06.28 – 2008.04.23)

Born:	1937.08.16 (Greece)
Ordained Priest:	1961.12.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1975.08.06
Died:	2012.03.18 († 74)

Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece) (1975.06.28 – 2008.04.23)

Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis (1975.06.28 – 2012.03.18)

Bishop Hyakinthos Gad
(1958.02.17 – 1975.01.30)

Born:	1912.02.02 (Greece)
Ordained Priest:	1935.12.01
Consecrated Bishop:	1958.03.12
Died:	1975.01.30 († 62)

Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis (1958.02.17 – 1975.01.30)

Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece) (1958.02.17 – 1975.01.30)

Bishop George Calavassy
(1932.06.11 – 1957.11.07)

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)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Athens (Αθήνα), Attica

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Strumica–Skopje (↑), Saint John XXIII of Sofia (↗), Istanbul (→)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Population: 6,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 2 parishes

Personnel: 9 priests (diocesan), 4 religious (4 sisters), 1 seminarian

Greek Apostolic Exarchate of

Greece