Territory dependent on the Patriarch

In oriental canon law, a Territory Dependent on the Patriarch is a low-ranking, pre-diocesan type of Eastern Catholic jurisdiction, directly dependent on the Patriarch who heads a rite-specific Particular Church sui iuris, but not part of his or any ecclesiastical province (compare Latin exempt status), and in Rome depenent on the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

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As of 2015, there are five such territories, in the Holy Land and North Africa :

Antiochian Rite
Syriac Catholic Church :
  • Syriac Catholic Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Sudan and South Sudan
Byzantine Rite
Melkite Catholic Church :
Syro-Oriental Rite
Chaldean Catholic Church, both in the Holy Land :

See also
  • Apostolic Exarchate
  • Archiepiscopal Exarchate
  • Patriarchal Exarchate

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