Eparchy of Bratislava

Eparchy of Bratislava

The Eparchy of Bratislava ( _la. Eparchia Bratislaviensis) is an eparchy of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church which covers the territory of western and central Slovakia, i.e., Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra, Trenčín, Žilina and Banská Bystrica regions (around 33,300 km²). The eparchy is a suffragan to the metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov. Its cathedral is the Church of the Holy Feast of the Cross in central Bratislava.

History

The eparchy was established on 30 January 2008 by Holy Father Benedict XVI and its current bishop is Peter Rusnák. The approximate number of Greek Catholic faithful in the whole eparchy as of 2008 may be around 25,000. [ [http://www.grkat.nfo.sk/aktualne.html Aktuálne informácie o Katolíckej cirkvi byzantsko-slovenského obradu na Slovensku ] ]

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