Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk

Roman Catholic diocese in Belarus

The Diocese of Pinsk (Latin: Pinsken(sis) Latinorum, Belarusian: Пінская) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Belarus. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev.

Its cathedral is a minor basilica: the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the episcopal see of Pinsk.

History

• 28 October 1925: Established as Diocese of Pinsk/Пінская (Беларуская)/Pinsken(sis) Latinorum (Latin adjective), on territory split off from the then Diocese of Minsk (which also provided its first incumbent by transfer)
• Lost territory on 1991.06.05 to establish the Diocese of Drohiczyn.

Statistics

As of 2021^[update], it pastorally served 50,825 Catholics (1.8% of 2,780,000 total) on 72,700 km² in 87 parishes with 52 priests (36 diocesan, 16 religious), 62 lay religious (26 brothers, 36 sisters) and 8 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

Bishops of Pinsk

• Zygmunt Łoziński (1925.10.28 – death 1932.03.26), previously Bishop of Minsk (Belarus) (1917.11.02 – 1925.10.28)
• Kazimierz Bukraba (1932.07.10 – death 1946.05.06)
  • Apostolic Administrator Władysław Jędruszuk (1967.02.16 – 1991.06.05), while Auxiliary Bishop of Pinsk (1962.11.19 – 1991.06.05) and Titular Bishop of Clysma (1962.11.19 – 1991.06.05); later Bishop of Drohiczyn (Poland) (1991.06.05 – death 1994.05.25)
  • Apostolic Administrator Kazimierz Świątek (Казімір Свёнтэк) (1991.04.13 - 2011.06.30) while Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (Belarus) (1991.04.13 – retired 2006.06.14), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Gerardo Maiella (1994.11.26 – death 2011.07.21), President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus (1999.02.11 – 2006.06.14)
  • Apostolic Administrator Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (2011.06.30 - 2012.06.16) while Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (Belarus) (2007.09.21 – ...), Vice-President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus (2006? – 2015.06.03); previously Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus (1989.05.10 – 2002.02.11) as Apostolic Administrator of Minsk (Belarus) (1989.05.10 – 1991.04.13), Apostolic Administrator of Northern European Russia (Russia) (1991.04.13 – 2002.02.11), President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (1999 – 2005), Metropolitan Archbishop of (Mother of God at) Moscow (Russia) (2002.02.11 – 2007.09.21); later President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus (2015.06.03 – ...)
• Antoni Dziemianko (2012.06.16 - ... ), previously Titular Bishop of Lesvi (1998.07.04 – 2012.05.03) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Grodno (Belarus) (1998.07.04 – 2004.12.14) and as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev (Belarus) (2004.12.14 – 2012.05.03), Secretary General of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus (2006? – 2015.06.03), Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev (Belarus) (2006.06.14 – 2007.09.21).

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Belarus
• the former Ruthenian Catholic Archeparchy of Polotsk–Vitebsk
• Roman Catholicism in Belarus

Sources and external links

• GCatholic.org - data for all sections
• Catholic Hierarchy