Also following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the married men secretly and irregularly ordained as Roman Catholic priests by underground bishop Felix Maria Davídek were ordered by Pope John Paul II to submit to conditional re-ordination followed by their permanent liturgical transfer to the Byzantine Rite Exarchate.

Its parishes follow the Byzantine Rite, which is also celebrated by the majority of Orthodox Christians.

The church was built on territory previously covered by a Byzantine Rite metropolis — the Slovak Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov.

An exarchate is the initial stage of an eparchy (the equivalent of a diocese in the Latin rites), which is exempt (i.e. not part of an ecclesiastical province but directly subject to the Holy See).

[2] In July 2016 according to the Statistics from the Annuario Pontificio 2016 compiled by Ron Roberson there is a combined Byzantine or Constantinopolitan Tradition (“Greek Catholic”) count of 7,677,373 for which the Ruthenian Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic in Prague makes up 17,000 of.