Diocese of Pinsk

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Diocese of Pinsk
Dioecesis Pinskensis Latinorum
Statistics
Country: Belarus
Metropolitan: Minsk-Mohilev
Rite: Latin Rite
Area: 72,700 km²
Population:
  Total:
  Catholics:
3,100,000 (2004)
50,000 (1.6%)
Cathedral: Унебаўзяцця Найсвяцейшай Панны Марыі
(Cathedral of the Assumption
of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Ordinaries
Bishop: vacant
Auxiliary Bishop: Kazimierz Wielikosielec, O.P.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk (Latin: Pinsken(sis) Latinorum, Belarusian: Пінская) is an diocese located in the city of Pinsk in the Ecclesiastical province of Minsk-Mohilev in Belarus.

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[edit] History

  • October 28, 1925: Established as Diocese of Pinsk

[edit] Leadership

  • Bishops of Pinsk (Roman rite)
    • Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek (Казімір Свёнтэк) (Apostolic Administrator since 1991.04.13)
    • Bishop Wladyslaw Jedruszuk (Apostolic Administrator 1967 – 1991.06.05)
    • Bishop Kazimierz Bukraba (1932.07.10 – 1946.05.06)
    • Bishop Sigismondo Lozinski (1925.10.28 – 1932.03.26)

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