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The glass weights had numerous advantages in manufacture and use [20] but seem to have disappeared following the loss of the empire's Syrian and Egyptian provinces in the 7th century. [21] Analysis of the thousands of surviving model weights strongly suggest multiple local weight standards in the Byzantine Empire before the Arab conquests. [22]
Artur Olexandrovych Bubnevych (born 22 June 1975) is a Ukrainian-American prelate of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church who has been serving as the eparch of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix since January 2025. In 2024, Pope Francis appointed him as eparch of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix, succeeding John Stephen Pazak.
The Eparchy of Beirut is an ancient Byzantine one, elevated to the rank of archeparchy with the Council of Chalcedon in the fifth century. The Greek Catholic Eparchy of Beirut was officially founded in 1724, after the Patriarch of Antioch was divided into two branches, the Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic (or Melkite). [1]
For this period the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholics were united to the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in the same eparchy. Ethnic tensions flared due to cultural differences (mostly of a political nature) between Ukrainians who came from Austrian-ruled Galicia and the Rusyns and other Byzantine Catholics who came from the Kingdom of Hungary.
The Book of the Prefect or Eparch (Greek: Τὸ ἐπαρχικὸν βιβλίον, romanized: To eparchikon biblion) is a Byzantine commercial manual or guide addressed to the eparch of Constantinople (the governor of the city with supreme judicial jurisdiction and the highest economic official, who had charge of, for example, tariffs and import/export regulation).
On December 3, 1981, Pope John Paul II by decree established a new eparchy, the Eparchy of Van Nuys, composed of 13 western states. Its center was Van Nuys, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and its cathedral would be at St. Mary's Church, the first Byzantine Catholic parish formed in the western United States. John Paul II appointed the ...
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church Toledo; St. Louis Byzantine Catholic Mission St. Louis, Missouri; Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist Parma, Ohio; St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church Archived 2018-07-28 at the Wayback Machine Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church Archived 2022-08-25 at the Wayback Machine ...
Pope Benedict XVI raised this to the level of an Eparchy on January 30, 2008 and at the same time erected the new Byzantine-rite Eparchy of Bratislava. He also raised Prešov to the level of a metropolitan see, constituting the Slovak Greek Catholic Church as a sui iuris metropolitan Church.