The Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Krym (Latin: Archiepiscopi Exarchatus Crimenses) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic exarchate of the Catholic Church. It was established on 13 February 2014 from the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa – Crimea.
Because of the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014 some part of faithful and clergy left the exarchate and an exarch was not appointed. Currently, the exarchate is governed by the Archiepiscopal Administrator Mykhaylo Bubniy, who is also the exarch of the Exarchate of Odesa.
The exarchate is one of only five Archiepiscopal Exarchates in the world, all of which are part of the particular Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Status as Archiepiscopal Exarchate
As Major Archbishops have similar authority to that of Patriarchs, Archiepiscopal Exarchates similarly have roughly the same status in canon law as Patriarchal Exarchates.