Rite
Croatian and Serbian Greek Catholic Church
Byzantine tradition · Church sui iuris
A Byzantine-rite Church sui iuris in the western Balkans, comprising the Eparchy of Križevci (1777) and the Eparchy of Ruski Krstur (2018).
History
The Church grew from unions among Byzantine-rite Christians who settled in the Croatian and Hungarian military frontier from the early seventeenth century, and from Rusyn colonists who came to the Bačka region in the eighteenth. Pope Pius VI erected the Eparchy of Križevci for them in 1777. In 2018 Pope Francis erected the Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Ruski Krstur in Serbia, and the two eparchies together now form this Church sui iuris.
Background
Its two eparchies — Križevci in Croatia and Ruski Krstur in Serbia — serve Croats, Rusyns, Ukrainians and others of the Byzantine tradition. The Divine Liturgy is celebrated in Church Slavonic, Croatian and Rusyn.
Summary
A Byzantine-rite Church sui iuris in the western Balkans, comprising the Eparchy of Križevci (1777) and the Eparchy of Ruski Krstur (2018).
Family
byzantine
Region
Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro
Entry kind
church_sui_iuris
Content subtype
church_sui_iuris
Faithful estimate
About forty thousand faithful