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Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets Podilskyi

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Rite
  
Latin

Area
  
47,100 km²

Bishop
  
Leon Dubrawski

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Ukraine

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Mieczysław Mokrzycki

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2013) 2,942,800 250,000 (8.5%)

Cathedral
  
Кафедральний собор св. Ап. Петра і Павла Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Kamianets-Podilskyi

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv

Auxiliary bishops
  
Jan Niemiec, Radosław Zmitrowicz

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Latin: Dioecesis Camenecensis Latinorum) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Maksymilian Leonid Dubrawski is the current bishop of the diocese. He was appointed to the See of Kamianets-Podilskyi in 2002.

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History

The history of the diocese begins in 1918, when the diocese was split from the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins. At the time, the diocese comprised most of Ukraine. In May 2002, the diocese was split in three to create the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia and the Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol.

Geography

The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins.

Ordinaries

  • Stanisław Józef Hozjusz † ( 1722 Appointed – 1733 Appointed, Bishop of Poznań)
  • Franciszek Antoni Kobielski † ( 1736 Appointed – 1739 Appointed, Bishop of Luceoria o Łuck)
  • Adam Stanisław Krasiński † ( 1757 Appointed – 1798 Resigned)
  • Francesco Borgia Machiewiez † (15 March 1815 Appointed – )
  • Niccola Gòrski † (27 June 1853 Appointed – )
  • Antoni Fijalkowski † (23 March 1860 Appointed – 23 February 1872 Appointed, Archbishop of Mohilev)
  • Pietro Mankowski † (24 September 1918 Appointed – 9 February 1926 Resigned)
  • Jan Olszanski, M.I.C. † (16 January 1991 Appointed – 4 May 2002 Retired)
  • Maksymilian Leonid Dubrawski, O.F.M. (4 May 2002 Appointed – )

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi Wikipedia
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