Roman Catholic Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk explained

Jurisdiction:	Diocese
the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk
Latin:	Dioecesis Neosiberiana Transfigurationis
Local:	Преображенской епархии в Новосибирске
Country:	Russia
Metropolitan:	Mother of God at Moscow
Rite:	Latin Rite
Cathedral:	Cathedral of the Transfiguration
Area Km2:	2,000,000
Population:	25,000,000
Population As Of:	2010
Catholics:	500,000
Catholics Percent:	2.0
Map:	Roman Catholic Diocese of Transfiguration at Novosibirsk.PNG

The Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk (Latin: Dioecesis Neosiberiana Transfigurationis) is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Mother of God at Moscow. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, in the city of Novosibirsk, in Siberia (Asian Russia).

History

• Established on April 13, 1991 as Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk, on territory split off from the Diocese of Vladivostok and the newly suppressed Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev
• Renamed on May 18, 1999 as Apostolic Administration of Western Siberia, having lost territory to establish the then Apostolic Administration of Eastern Siberia (now Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk)
• Promoted and renamed-back on February 11, 2002 as Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk

Ordinaries

(all Roman rite, so far missionary members of Latin congregations)

Apostolic Administrators of Novosibirsk (Siberia)

• Joseph Werth, Jesuits (S.J.), (1991.04.13 – 1999.05.18 see below), Titular Bishop of Bulna (1991.04.13 – 2002.02.11)
• Jerzy Mazur, Divine Word Missionaries (S.V.D.) (1998.03.23 – 1999.05.18), Titular Bishop of Tabunia (1998.03.23 – 2002.02.11), later Apostolic Administrator of Eastern Siberia (Russia) (1999.05.18 – 2002.02.11), Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia) (2000 – 2003.04.17), Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia) (2002.02.11 – 2003.04.17), Bishop of Ełk (Poland) (2003.04.17 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Western Siberia

• Joseph Werth, S.J. (see above 1999.05.18 – 2002.02.11 see below)

Suffragan Bishops of (Transfiguration at) Novosibirsk

• Joseph Werth, S.J. (see above 2002.02.11 - ...), President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (2005.02 – 2011.01.19)

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 512,000 Catholics (2.0% of 25,600,000 total) on 2,000,000 km² in 70 parishes and 160 missions with 38 priests (19 diocesan, 19 religious), 1 deacon and 77 lay religious (20 brothers, 57 sisters).

Dependent churches include:

• Holy Trinity Church, Tobolsk
• St. Anne's Church, Yekaterinburg
• St. John Chrysostom Church, Novokuznetsk
• St. Joseph's Church, Tyumen
• Church of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, Tomsk

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Russia

Sources and external links

• GCatholic.org, with Google satellite photo
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Siberian Catholic Newspaper - website of the press service of the Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk
• Catholic Church in Western Siberia
• St. Nicholas Catholic Orphanage in Novosibirsk