Metropolis of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church)

Eparchies of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolis of Pittsburgh

The Metropolis of Pittsburgh is a sui juris metropolitan see of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church that is located in the United States of America and Canada. The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church is one of 23 sui juris (self governing) Eastern Catholic particular churches in the Catholic Church that is in full communion with the Holy See. The metropolis uses the Byzantine Rite in its liturgies. It was erected as a metropolis (archdiocese) by Pope Paul VI in 1969. The metropolis has jurisdiction over those communities that originated (in terms of their ancestry) from the regions of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia. Worshipers come from several Byzantine Catholic groups: Rusyn Americans, Slovak Americans, Hungarian Americans, and Croatian Americans.[1] In 2022, governance of the Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto in Canada passed to the metropolis of Pittsburgh from the Slovak Greek Catholic Church.[2]

The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church does not have a unified organization.

  1. ^ The Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh: History
  2. ^ "Rinunce e nomine, 03.03.2022". 3 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.