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 | (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 Church 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.