Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Poland


The Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Poland is the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful for the members of non-Latin rite-specific particular churches sui iuris in Poland, excepting Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which had its own church structure and Catholic Church of the Byzantine-Slavic rite, emerged in a Roman Catholic structure.

History

In September 18, 1981, it was established as Ordinariate of Poland for Greek and Armenian Catholics by Pope John Paul II, detached from the Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese of Warszawa, but vested in that see, whose incumbents were all created Cardinal.
On 16 January 1991, following the erection of two Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchies, the Ordinariate assumed its current name and limited its jurisdiction.
Since 2007 147 faithful of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine-Slavic rite belonged to the parish of Kostomłoty were entrusted to the pastoral care of the Latin bishop of Siedlce.
In fact, therefore, since all Byzantine ritual parishes have now been excluded, the jurisdiction of the ordinary is exercised only on those of the Armenian rite. From a Archbishop Nycz's decree on 1 December 2009, the Ordinariate obtained jurisdiction over three churches, all of them belonging to the Armenian rite.

Territory and statistics

The ordinariate is exempt, directly dependent on the Holy See. It is headquartered in Warsaw (the primatial see and its ordinary is the Latin hierarch of the Archdiocese of Warsaw.

Parishes

There are three parishes in the Ordinariate:
As per 2014, its pastorally served 670 Eastern Catholics in 3 parishes and 2 missions with 4 diocesan priests.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Ordinaries of Poland of the Eastern Rite