The apostolic exarchate is immediately exempt to the Holy See (notably the Congregation for the Oriental Churches) and not part of any (Melkite or Latin) ecclesiastical province, and encompasses the entirety of Venezuela.
The apostolic exarchate extends to all the faithful of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Venezuela.
Melkite Catholic immigration in Venezuela, especially from Aleppo in Syria, dates back to the early decades of the twentieth century and intensified in particular between the two world wars.
In 1957 for the first time, a priest of the Society of the Missionaries of St. Paul, Gabriel Dick, took pastoral care of the Melkite community in the country.
The Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela was erected on 19 February 1990 with the papal bull Quo longius[2] of Pope John Paul II.