Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr

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Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr

Dioecesis Kioviensis-Zytomeriensis

Єпархія Київ-Житомир
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Location
CountryFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Ecclesiastical province Lviv
Statistics
Area222,300 km2 (85,800 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)
(as of 2015)
Decrease2.svg 8,165,300
Decrease2.svg 219,200 (Steady2.svg 2.7%)
Information
Rite Latin
Cathedral St. Sophia's Cathedral, Zhytomyr
Co-cathedral Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander, Kyiv
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi, S.D.B.
Metropolitan Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki
Auxiliary Bishops Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr (Latin : Dioecesis Kioviensis-Zytomeriensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Ukraine in ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is the St. Sophia's Cathedral, Zhytomyr. It also has, both in Kyiv: a Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander, and a former cathedral, now Church of St. Nicholas.

History

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Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 219,600 Catholics (2.7% of 8,182,668 total) on 111,600 km² in 162 parishes and 124 missions with 160 priests (60 diocesan, 100 religious), 277 lay religious (112 brothers, 165 sisters) and 36 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Kyiv (Kijów, Kiev)
Suffragan Bishops of Kijów–Czernihów
Suffragan Bishops of Kyïv–Zhytomyr

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References

  1. Kiaupa, Zigmantas; Kiaupienė, Jūratė; Kuncevičius, Albinas (2000). The History of Lithuania before 1795. p. 183.

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