The Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Belarus (or Belarus of the Ukrainians) was a short-lived (1940–42) Apostolic Exarchate (Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the particular Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sui iuris (Byzantine Rite in Ukrainian language) in the Soviet Belarus SSR.
A new Belarusian Greek Catholic Church was founded in 1994 and it's currently under the apostolic administrator Sergiusz Gajek.
History Established 1940 as Apostolic Exarchate of Belarus, without direct Eastern Catholic precursor suppressed in 1942, having had a single incumbent (Ukrainian Rite) : Father Antoni Niemancewicz (1940 – 1942), no other prelature.
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