The Roman Catholic Church in Belarus, united in the Episcopal Conference of Belarus, a Slavic ex-Soviet country in Eastern Europe, is presently only composed of one Latin ecclesiastical province, comprising the Metropolitan of Minsk-Mohilev and his three Suffragan dioceses.
There are no Eastern Catholic, pre-diocesan or other exempt jurisdictions.
There is an Apostolic Nunciature to Belarus as papal diplomatic representation (embassy-level) in the national capital Minsk.
An exarch was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.
An Apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese, or is a diocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate that either has no bishop or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated bishop.
Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was most known for his resistance to Cold War-era Soviet communism and for his service in Minsk, Belarus. Cardinal Swiatek was the former Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, and Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk.
The Catholic Church in Belarus is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The first Latin Rite diocese in Belarus was established in Turaŭ between 1008 and 1013. Catholicism was a traditionally dominant religion of Belarusian nobility and of a large part of the population of West Belarus.
The Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia, or Kyiv–Halych, is the only major archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The cathedral church, the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, was finished in 2013 in Kyiv.
The Archdiocese of Minsk–Mohilev is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church covering the cities of Minsk and Mogilev in Belarus. It is a metropolitan see with three suffragan dioceses.
The Diocese of Pinsk is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Belarus. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vitebsk is a diocese located in the city of Vitebsk in the Ecclesiastical province of Minsk-Mohilev in Belarus.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mohilev was a territorial Latin rite division of the Roman Catholic Church, covering a significant western proportion of the territory of the Tsarist Russian empire.
The Archdiocese of Moscow, also known as Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Moscow, in Russia.
Kazimierz Wielikosielec is a Belarusian prelate of the Catholic Church and a Dominican. Since 1992, he has been the Vicar General and Dean of the Diocese of Pinsk deanery in Baranavichy, and since 1999 an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Pinsk. In January 2021, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Minsk–Mohilev.
The Archeparchy of Polotsk(-Vitebsk) was an eparchy of the Ruthenian Uniate Church in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1596 to 1839.
The Ruthenian Catholic Archeparchy of Smolensk is a former eparchy of the Ruthenian Uniate Church (1625-1778) in part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth facing annexation by the Czarist Russian Empire, with episcopal see in Smolensk, now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia.
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Vilnius and its successor Žyrovyci of the Ukrainians were the only eparchy in Lithuania of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, but short-lived (1809-1828-1833).
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Lutsk–Ostroh was thrice an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and later an Eastern Catholic titular see (1921-73) but was abolished even as such. It was converted by joining the Union of Brest along with eparchies of Kiev, Polotsk, Pinsk, Kholm and Volodymyr.
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Volodymyr–Brest was an eparchy of the particular Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sui iuris in parts of Ukraine and Belarus under Imperial Russian rule, from 1569 till 1833.
