Diocese of Karaganda Dioecesis Karagandansis Карагандинская епархияQaraǵandy qalasynyń eparhiyasy | |
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Location | |
Country | Kazakhstan |
Ecclesiastical province | Maria Santissima in Astana |
Metropolitan | Maria Santissima in Astana |
Statistics | |
Area | 711,300 km2 (274,600 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 3,590,000 31,300 (0.9%) |
Parishes | Karaganda: St. Joseph Parish Karaganda: Maria Mother of the Church Parish Abaj: Annunciation of the Lord Parish Temirtau: St. Andrew Parish Balkhash: St. Francis of Assisi Parish Zhezkazgan: Transfiguration of our Lord Parish |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 13 April 1991 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, Karaganda |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Adelio Dell’Oro |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Tomasz Peta |
Auxiliary Bishops | Yevgeniy Zinkovskiy |
Bishops emeritus | Jan Paul Lenga |
Map | |
Website | |
catholic-kazakhstan.org/Karag/En |
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.[1]
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Karaganda in Kazakhstan.[2][3] The city also had the former Cathedral of St. Joseph.