the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For Greek Catholics in the Czech Republic, a separate Apostolic Vicariate was created, elevated in 1996 to an exarchate thus forming the Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic (now considered part of Ruthenian Catholic Church); the 2007 Annuario Pontificio indicated that it had by then grown to having 177,704 faithful, 37 priests and 25 parishes. In Slovakia itself, Pope John Paul II created an Apostolic Exarchate of Košice in 1997. 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. Structure Slovakia: Archeparchy of Prešov with the following suffragans: Eparchy of Bratislava Eparchy of Košice Abroad In the United States and Canada, the Slovak Greek Catholics fall under the jurisdiction of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, with the Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto for Slovak Greek Catholics reduced from an eparchy and transferred to Ruthenian authority in 2022. References Sources External links Byzantine Catholic Church in Slovakia - unofficial website Gréckokatolícke arcibiskupstvo Prešov Gréckokatolícka eparchia Košice Gréckokatolícka eparchia Bratislava Eparchy of Ss. Cyril and Methodius for Slovaks of the Byzantine Rite in Canada Apoštolský exarchát řeckokatolické církve v České republice Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Prešov Slovak Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Toronto) Gréckokatolícka farnosť a protopresbyterát Medzilaborce Article on the Slovak Greek Catholic Church by Ronald Roberson on the CNEWA web site www.damian-hungs.de (in German)