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Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv Zaporizhia

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Metropolitan
  
Lviv

Pope
  
Francis

Bishop
  
Stanisław Szyrokoradiuk

Auxiliary bishop
  
Jan Sobiło

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
196,300 km²

Country
  
Ukraine

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2013) 18,090,000 40,000 (0.2%)

Cathedral
  
Кафедральний собор Успіння Пресвятої Діви Марії Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kharkiv

Co-cathedral
  
Прокафедральний собор Бога Отця Милосердного Cocathedral of the Merciful Father in Zaporizhia

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv

Emeritus bishops
  
Stanislaw Padewski, Marian Buczek

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia (Latin: Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk is the current bishop of the diocese. He was appointed to the See of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia in April 2014.

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History

The history of the diocese begins 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 Szyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (12 April 2014 – present)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Wikipedia
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