Eastern Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in France
Greek Church of
Cargese
in
Corsica
.
Melkite
Church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre in
Paris
.
Saint Ephrem
Church in Paris, Syrian Catholic Church
The
Ordinariate for Eastern (Rite) Catholics in France
(or
France of the Eastern Rite
) (
French
:
Ordinariat des catholiques de rite oriental residant en France
) is a Catholic
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful
(pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction within a
Latin Church
territory), jointly for
Eastern Catholics
in various rites and languages of
particular churches
sui iuris
without proper jurisdiction there.
It is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, and depends directly on its
Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
.
History
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Since 1922 existed in the
archdiocese of Paris
a diocesan administration for the strangers, which was placed under the authority of an
auxiliary bishop
. The high number of
Middle Eastern
immigrants had imposed on the archbishop, in December 1953, the creation of 8 eastern parishes in Paris. The question, however, did not concern only the French capital, but the entire national territory; in fact, according to the 1954 census, approximately 50,000 Catholics belonging to the various Eastern rites resided permanently in France.
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At the beginning of 1954, the Episcopal commission for foreigners elaborated a report on the situation of the Orientals in France and on the opportunity to create a "coordination" between them.
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These considerations prompted the
Holy See
to erect the
ordinariate
for the faithful of the Eastern rite on July 27, 1954 with the decree Nobilis Galliae Natio of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, which implemented an ex audientia decision of the Pope Pius XII of June 16.
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The ordinary office is entrusted to the archbishop pro tempore of Paris, with the right to appoint one or more vicars general for the eastern faithful.
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The ordinariate lost its jurisdiction over three Eastern Catholic rite-specific
particular churches
sui iuris to the following jurisdictions directly dependent on their particular chiefs, but not part of any
ecclesiastical province
:
Territory and statistics
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The Ordinariate has jurisdiction over the faithful of the Eastern rites who live on French territory, with the exception of those who have their own ordinary, as Armenians, Ukrainians and Maronites. Its seat is located in Paris and its ordinary is the Metropolitan Archbishop of national capital
Paris
, and its incumbents were all created Cardinals.
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As per 2013, it pastorally served 127,000 Eastern Catholics in 11 parishes.
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Parishes
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In 2013 the following communities depend on the ordinariate:
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Episcopal ordinaries
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- Ordinaries of France of Eastern Rite
(for bios, see also the Metropolitan Paris see)
It has had one
Auxiliary Bishop
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See also
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Sources
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References
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Sources and external links
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- Gcatholic, with Google map and satellite photo - data for all sections
- Catholic-hierarchy.org
- paris.catholique.fr
- Decreto
Nobilis Galliae Natio
, AAS 47 (1955), pp. 612?613
- Congregation for the Oriental Churches
,
"Declaratio" interpretativa del decreto del 27 luglio 1954
, 30 aprile 1986, in
Communicationes
78 (1986), pp. 784-786
- Astrid Kaptijn,
Gli Ordinariati per i fedeli Cattolici Orientali privi di Gerarchia propria
, in Pablo Gefaell (a cura di),
Cristiani orientali e pastori latini
, Milano 2012, pp. 233?269
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Ordinariate
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