As a sui iuris (autonomous) Church, it is in full communion with the Holy See.
The exarchate is exempt, which means that it is directly subject to the Holy See, as the Greek Catholic Church does not have a metropolitan bishop.
[3] At the same time, on June 28 (1911), Isaias Papadopoulos was appointed titular bishop of Gratianopolis,[4] and he was also entrusted with the initial organization of the newly formed Exarchate, but he was not appointed apostolic exarch.
On June 11, 1932, it lost territory to establish the Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece.
Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzalez, O.F.M, was named administrator of the exarchate, with the retirement of Bishop Pelâtre.