Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia

Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis Єпархія Харків-Запоріжжя
The Cathedral of the Assumption, Kharkiv
Location
Country	Ukraine
Ecclesiastical province	Lviv
Metropolitan	Lviv
Statistics
Area	196,300 km2 (75,800 sq mi)
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 Shyrokoradiuk
Auxiliary Bishops	Jan Sobiło
Bishops emeritus	Marian Buczek
Map
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. Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk is the current bishop of the diocese. He was appointed to the See of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia in April 2014.

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 Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (12 April 2014 – present)

See also

• Roman Catholic Deanery of Sumy
• Roman Catholicism in Ukraine

External links

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy