Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr Dioecesis Kioviensis-Zytomeriensis Єпархія Київ-Житомир | |
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Location | |
Country | Ukraine |
Ecclesiastical province | Lviv |
Statistics | |
Area | 222,300 km2 (85,800 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2015) 8,165,300 219,200 ( 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.
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.
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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.
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