Area 711,300 km² Bishop Adelio Dell’Oro | Established 13 April 1991 | |
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Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2013)3,590,00031,300 (0.9%) Parishes Karaganda: St. Joseph ParishKaraganda: Maria Mother of the Church ParishAbaj: Annunciation of the Lord ParishTemirtau: St. Andrew ParishBalkhash: St. Francis of Assisi ParishZhezkazgan: Transfiguration of our Lord Parish Emeritus bishops Jan Paul Lenga, Janusz Kaleta | ||
The 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 Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. The city also had the former Cathedral of St. Joseph.
History
Established on 1991.04.13 as Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan, on vast territory (most of ex-Soviet Turkestan) split off from the Diocese of Vladivostok.
Lost territories repeatedly :
Promoted on 1999.07.07 as Diocese of Karaganda, losing territory to establish Apostolic Administration of Astana, Apostolic Administration of Almaty and Apostolic Administration of Atyrau.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 8,340 Catholics (0.2% of 3,640,000 total) on 711,208 km² in 19 parishes and 2 missions with 19 priests (15 diocesan, 4 religious) and 38 lay religious (4 brothers, 34 sisters).
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(all Roman Rite)