Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia
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- Catholics
15,621,350
48,430 (0.3%)
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kharkiv
Co-Cathedral of the Merciful Father, Zaporizhzhia
Location of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia
The Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia (Latin: Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Pavlo Honcharuk is the current bishop of the diocese. The diocesan seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kharkiv, and the co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of the Merciful Father in Zaporizhzhia.
History
The diocese was created in 2002, when territory from the dioceses of the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, and the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr was split off and merged. The result created two dioceses with Catholic of around 5 percent, and one diocese with only 0.4, which is one of the lowest for any diocese.
Geography
The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins.
Ordinaries
- Bishop Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M.Cap. (4 May 2002 – 19 March 2009)
- coadjutor bishop Marian Buczek (16 July 2007 – 19 March 2009)
- Bishop Marian Buczek (19 March 2009 – 12 April 2014)
- auxiliary bishop Jan Sobilo (30 October 2010 – present), titular bishop of Bulna
- Bishop Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (12 April 2014 – 2 February 2019)
- Apostolic Administrator Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (2 February 2019 – 6 January 2020)
- Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk (since 6 January 2020)
See also
Notes
References
- GCatholic.org
- Catholic Hierarchy
External links
- Media related to Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
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- Diocese of Kamyanets–Podilskyi
- Diocese of Lutsk
- Diocese of Mukachevo
- Diocese of Kharkiv–Zaporizhzhia
- Diocese of Odesa–Simferopol
- Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia, the head of the particular church
- Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk
- Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv
- Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Crimea (Krym), (Russian-annexed Crimea)
- Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk
- Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odesa
/ exempt Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Eastern Europe, directly dependent on the Holy See
- Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv, directly dependent on the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia
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