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, archdiocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate that either has no bishop or archbishop or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated (arch)bishop.
The Catholic Church in Kazakhstan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuching is a Metropolitan Latin archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Sarawak, Malaysia. It is however remains dependent on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Kazakhstan.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv is a Metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine.
The Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Irkutsk, which is part of the ecclesiastical province of the Mother of God at Moscow in Russia. The Diocese of Irkutsk is the largest geographical Catholic bishopric on earth, covering an area of 9,960,000 km2. The Catholic population of the diocese is estimated to be about 53,000. It has 42 parishes served by about 42 priests. The bishop is Cyryl Klimowicz, a Pole. The diocese is divided into five deaneries: Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, Vladivostok and Magadan.
The Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Mother of God at Moscow.
The Diocese of Saitama is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Saitama in the ecclesiastical province of Tokyo in Japan.
The Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës is a Latin Church Metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Albania.
The Diocese of Zhoucun (Chowtsun) (Latin: Dioecesis Ceuziienensis, Chinese: 教周村教区) is a Latin Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church located in Zhoucun (Zibo) in the ecclesiastical province of Jinan in China.
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.
José Luis Mumbiela Sierra is a Spanish-born Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop of the Holy Trinity Diocese in Almaty.
Janusz Wiesław Kaleta was a Catholic bishop who was laicized in 2016.
The Apostolic Administration of Atyrau is a pastoral area sui iuris, not yet fully a diocese, in western Kazakhstan which forms part of the Roman Catholic Church in this country, namely of the metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Nur-Sultan.
The Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan is a Roman Catholic Apostolic Administration for the Catholics of Uzbekistan.
The Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Constantinople is an Apostolic Exarchate of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church which is an Eastern Catholic Church. As a sui iuris (autonomous) Church, it is in full communion with the Holy See. In its liturgical services it uses the Byzantine Rite in the Greek language. It is effectively defunct.
The Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk is a Latin Church missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on the Russian (ex-Japanese) Far Eastern island Sakhalin.
Henry Theophilus Howaniec was a Roman Catholic bishop.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Kazakhstan was the episcopal conference of Kazakhstan, that operated from 2003 until 2022. It consisted of Archdiocese, two dioceses, and apostolic administration.
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