Roman Catholic Diocese of Vladivostok

The Diocese of Vladivostok was a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Russia and West Turkestan (1923-2002).

History

It was established on 2 February 1923 as Diocese of Vladivostok, on Czarist Russian imperial territory, canonically split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia.

On 1991.04.13, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it lost huge territories to establish the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk.

On 2002.02.11 it was suppressed, its territory being merged into the Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk, within which Vladivostok remains a deanery.

Episcopal ordinaries

(probably incomplete; Roman Rite)

Bishops of Vladivostok

• Karol Slivosky (1923.02.02 – 1933.01.06), Russian.

See also

• Mother of God Church, Vladivostok, possibly the former episcopal see

External links

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Catholic Church in Russia

Province of Moscow

• Archdiocese of Moscow
• Diocese of Novosibirsk
• Diocese of Saratov
• Diocese of Irkutsk

Exempt jurisdiction

• Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk

Furthermore

• List of Catholic dioceses in Russia

Bishops

• Episcopal Conference
  • Paolo Pezzi
  • Nicolai Dubinin
  • Joseph Werth
  • Clemens Pickel
  • Cyryl Klimowicz

Apostolic Nuncio

• Giovanni d'Aniello

Education

• St. Thomas Institute [de] (Moscow)
• "Mary, Queen of Apostles" Seminary [ru] (St. Petersburg)
• Catholic Preseminary (Novosibirsk)

Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Magistral Delegation of Russia

Igor Kovalevsky (Chaplain)

Others

• Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia (Byzantine Rite)
• Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe: Mikael Bassalé (Apostolic Administrator)

Former

• Dioceses
  • Archdiocese of Mohilev
  • Diocese of Tiraspol
  • Diocese of Vladivostok
• Apostolic Administration of Minsk-Mohilev
• Apostolic Administration of Moscow [ru]
• Apostolic Administration of Leningrad [ru]
• Apostolic Administration of Odesa
• Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia [ru]

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