Diocese of

Saint Joseph at Irkutsk

Russia

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (English) / Святого Иосифа в Иркутске (русский язык) / San Giuseppe a Irkutsk (Italiano) / Ircutscan(us) Sancti Iosephi (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Mother of God at Moscow

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Joseph (March 19)

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

1999.05.18: Established as Apostolic Administration of Eastern Siberia (English) / Siberia Orientale (Italiano) / Siberiæ Orientalis Latinorum (Latin) (from Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk)
2002.02.11: Promoted as Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (English) / Святого Иосифа в Иркутске (русский язык) / San Giuseppe a Irkutsk (Italiano) / Ircutscan(us) Sancti Iosephi (Latin) (gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Vladivostok and became suffragan of Mother of God at Moscow)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2003.04.17 – ...):

Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (71)

Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia)

Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia

Ordinaries

Bishops of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Roman Rite)

Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (71)
(2003.04.17 – ...)

Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia)
Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia)
Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia

Born:	1952.11.05 (Amangeldi, Kazakhstan)
Ordained Priest:	1980.06.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.12.04

Priest of Warmia (Poland) (1980.06.08 – 1999.10.13)

Titular Bishop of Arba (1999.10.13 – 2003.04.17)

Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk–Mohilev (Belarus) (1999.10.13 – 2003.04.17)

Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia) (2003.04.17 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia) (2003.04.17 – ...)

Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (2023.01.03 – ...)

Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (70)
(2002.02.11 – 2003.04.17)

Bishop of Ełk (Poland)

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Born:	1953.08.05 (Hawlowice, Poland)
Ordained Priest:	1979.04.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.05.31

Apostolic Administrator of Novosibirsk (Russia) (1998.03.23 – 1999.05.18)

Titular Bishop of Tabunia (1998.03.23 – 2002.02.11)

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 Administrators of Eastern Siberia (Roman Rite)

Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (70)
(1999.05.18 – 2002.02.11)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, Irkutsk (Иркутск), Siberian
Former Cathedral: Church of the Most Holy Mother of God, Vladivostok (Владивосток), Far Eastern

Transfiguration at Novosibirsk (←), Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (→), Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾 (↘), Ulaanbaatar (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 9,960,000 km²

Population: 53,000 Catholics (0.4% of 14,660,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 42 parishes

Personnel: 39 priests (7 diocesan, 32 religious), 92 religious (37 brothers, 55 sisters), 1 seminarian

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2023.11.30

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