Diocese of Pinsk Dioecesis Pinskensis Latinorum Пінская дыяцэзія | |
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Location | |
Country | Belarus |
Ecclesiastical province | Minsk-Mohilev |
Statistics | |
Area | 72,700 km2 (28,100 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 3,110,000 50,000 (1.6%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pinsk (Унебаўзяцця Найсвяцейшай Панны Марыі) |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Antoni Dziemianko |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz |
Auxiliary Bishops | Kazimierz Wielikosielec, O.P.; Andrei Znoska |
Map | |
Location of Diocese of Pinsk in Belarus |
The Diocese of Pinsk (Latin: Pinsken(sis) Latinorum, Belarusian: Пінская) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Belarus. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev.
Its cathedral is a minor basilica: the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the episcopal see of Pinsk.