Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia

Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis Єпархія Харків-Запоріжжя
File:Католический собор Успения Пресвятой Девы Марии.jpg The Cathedral of the Assumption, Kharkiv
Location
Country	Ukraine
Ecclesiastical province	Lviv
Metropolitan	Lviv
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 18,090,000 40,000 (0.2%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
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
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk
Auxiliary Bishops	Jan Sobiło
Emeritus Bishops	Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M. Cap., Marian Buczek
Map
Location of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Location of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia (Latin: Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Marian Buczek is the current bishop of the diocese. He was appointed to the See of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia in March 2009.

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

• Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. (4 May 2002 - 19 March 2009)
• Marian Buczek (19 March 2009 - 12 April 2014)
• Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk (12 April 2014 - present)

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Ukraine

External links

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy