Diocese of Karaganda Dioecesis Karagandansis Карагандинская епархияQaraǵandy qalasynyń eparhiyasy | |
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Location | |
Country | Kazakhstan |
Ecclesiastical province | Maria Santissima in Astana |
Metropolitan | Maria Santissima in Astana |
Statistics | |
Area | 711,300 km2 (274,600 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2013) 3,590,000 31,300 (0.9%) |
Parishes | Karaganda: St. Joseph Parish Karaganda: Maria Mother of the Church Parish Abaj: Annunciation of the Lord Parish Temirtau: St. Andrew Parish Balkhash: St. Francis of Assisi Parish Zhezkazgan: Transfiguration of our Lord Parish |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 13 April 1991 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, Karaganda |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Adelio Dell’Oro |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Tomasz Peta |
Auxiliary Bishops | Yevgeniy Zinkovskiy |
Bishops emeritus | Jan Paul Lenga |
Map | |
Website | |
catholic-kazakhstan.org/Karag/En |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Mary Most Holy in Astana, yet remains subject to the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. [1]
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. [2] [3] The city also had the former Cathedral of St. Joseph.
Established on 1991.04.13 as Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan, on vast territory (most of ex-Soviet Turkestan) split off from the Diocese of Vladivostok.
Lost territories repeatedly :
Promoted on 1999.07.07 as Diocese of Karaganda, losing territory to establish Apostolic Administration of Astana, Apostolic Administration of Almaty and Apostolic Administration of Atyrau.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 8,340 Catholics (0.2% of 3,640,000 total) on 711,208 km² in 19 parishes and 2 missions with 19 priests (15 diocesan, 4 religious) and 38 lay religious (4 brothers, 34 sisters).
(all Roman Rite)
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