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The Ruthenian Catholic Apostolic Administration of Bosnia-Hercegovina was a short-lived (1914-1924) pre-diocesan Eastern Catholic jurisdiction, covering Bosnia and Hercegovina.

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• History
• See also
• References
• Sources and external links

It was exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province. It practiced the Byzantine Rite in Ruthenian language.

History

• It was established in 1914 as 'permanent' Apostolic Administration of Bosna i Herzegovina (Croat language) / Bosnia and Herzegovina (English) / Bosnia et Herzegovina (Latin), on (then Austro-Hungarian imperial) territory previously served by the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci. The see of an Apostolic Administrator was in Sarajevo (1914–1917) and after – in Banja Luka (1917–1925). ^[1]
• Suppressed in 1925, its (after World War I Yugoslavian) territory being merged back into above Eparchy of Križevci,

having had a single incumbent :

• Father Oleksiy Bazyuk (1914 – 1925), no other hierarchs.

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Greek Catholic Eparchy of Ruski Krstur, an eparchy for Pannonian Rusyns in Vojvodina elevated in 2018

References

Sources and external links

• GCatholic ^{[self-published]}
• Grkokatolički vikarijat u Bosni i Hercegovini

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