Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia

Archeparchy of Philadelphia Philadelphiensis Ucrainorum Філадельфійська митрополія
Catholic
Seat of the Archeparchy: The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Location
Territory	Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Ecclesiastical province	Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Philadelphia
Headquarters	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Statistics
Population - Catholics	13,051
Parishes	64
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Rite	Byzantine Rite
Established	May 28, 1913; 111 years ago (May 28, 1913)
Cathedral	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Major Archbishop	Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Metropolitan Archbishop	Borys Gudziak
Bishops emeritus	Stephen Soroka
Map
Archeparchy of Philadelphia
Website
ukrarcheparchy.us

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Catholic Church in the Eastern United States. Its episcopal see is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Archeparchy of Philadelphia is a metropolitan see with three suffragan eparchies in its ecclesiastical province. The Archeparchy of Philadelphia's territorial jurisdiction includes the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and the eastern and central portions of Pennsylvania.

The current archbishop of the archeparchy is Borys Gudziak, installed on June 4, 2019.^[1][2]

Ukrainian Greek Catholics in the United States were given sui iuris status as an ordinariate for the faithful of eastern rite by Pope Pius X in 1914. Prior to that, all Ukrainian Greek Catholics had been under the jurisdiction of the local Latin Church ordinary. In 1924, the status of the ordinariate was elevated to that of exarchate, known as the Apostolic Exarchate of United States of America, Faithful of the Oriental Rite (Ukrainian). The Exarchate was then elevated to the status of Archeparchy by Pope Pius XII in 1950. In 1983, the Archeparchy lost part of its territory to the new (though still suffragan) Eparchy of Parma erected by Pope John Paul II.^[3]

As of 2016^[update], the archeparchy has approximately 13,051 Catholics and 64 parishes under its canonical jurisdiction.^[4]