Croatian Greek Catholic Church
- Croatian Greek Catholic Church
The Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church or Croatian Greek Catholic Church is an
Eastern Catholic Church sui iuris of theByzantine Rite .The "
eparchy " ("diocese ") comprising the Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church is theEparchy of Križevci . It once spanned the former Yugoslav republics ofCroatia ,Serbia , Macedonia, andBosnia and Herzegovina ; it mostly gathered its faithful among theCroats in central and eastern Croatia, Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia, and among theRusyns and/orUkrainians in eastern Croatia, northern Bosnia and northernSerbia . Theliturgy in the Slavonic Rite uses theOld Church Slavonic language and theCyrillic alphabet .The eparchy of Križevci is currently headed by Bishop Slavomir Miklovš (Славомир Микловш), a Ruthene (born 1934, appointed 1983). Note that most Catholic bishops in Croatia are of the
Latin Rite .After the formation of independent republics from what had been Yugoslavia, a separate
Apostolic Exarchate was created for theGreek Catholic s inSerbia andMontenegro , theApostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro . It was formed in 2002 and its first exarch Djura Džudžar (Дюра Джуджар) was appointed in 2003, with see inRuski Krstur . This is still associated with the Eparchy of Križevci, unlike the separate Apostolic Exarchate that was formed in Macedonia in 2003 and that is classified in the "Annuario Pontificio " as a separateparticular Church .ee also
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Eastern Christianity
*Byzantine Discalced Carmelites External links
* [http://www.krizevci.eu/hr_HR/ Križevci] hr icon
* [http://www.glas-koncila.hr/rubrike_reportaza.html?news_ID=7624 Glas Koncila article] hr icon
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