title: Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
text: # Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
  
  The Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk (Latin: Archiepiscopi Exarchatus Doneckiensis) is one of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Byzantine Rite, Ukrainian language)'s five Archiepiscopal Exarchate (Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction under a Major Archbishop) in Eastern Ukraine.
  
  Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Virgin of Mercy, in Donetsk. There is a Basilian monastery at Zvanivka, in the north of Donetsk Oblast.
  
  The current, and first, archiepiscopal exarch is Bishop Stepan Meniok, C.Ss.R.
  
  ## History
  
  It was established on 11 January 2002 as the Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k – Kharkiv, on territory split off from the then Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv – Vyshhorod (which became the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv).
  
  On 2 April 2014 the Exarchate was renamed as Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk, having lost territory to establish the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv.
  
  ## Episcopal ordinaries
  
  ### Archiepiscopal Exarch of Donetsk–Kharkiv
  
  * Stepan Meniok, C.SS.R. (2002.01.11 – 2014.04.02 'see below), Titular Bishop of Acarassus (2002.01.11 – ...)
     * Auxiliary Bishop Wasyl Ihor Medwit, O.S.B.M. (2009.03.17 – 2013.10.25), emeritus; previously Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1994.03.30 – 1996.09.30), Titular Bishop of Hadriane (1994.03.30 – ...), Apostolic Visitor in Kazakhstan and Central Asia of the Ukrainians (1996.09.30 – 2002.10), Archiepiscopal Exarch of Kyiv–Vyshhorod of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1997.09.20 – 2004.12.06), Bishop of Curia of the Ukrainians (2004.12.06 – 2009.03.17)
  
  ### Archiepiscopal Exarchs of Donetsk
  
  * Stephan Meniok, C.SS.R. (see above 2014.04.02 – ...)
  
  ## Sources and external links
  
  * Exarchate website
  * GCatholic.org with incumbent biography links
  * Profile at catholic-hierarchy.org
  
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