Roman Catholic Diocese of Vladivostok
Former Roman Catholic diocese in Russia
The Diocese of Vladivostok was a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Russia and West Turkestan (1923-2002).
History
It was established on 2 February 1923 as Diocese of Vladivostok, on Czarist Russian imperial territory, canonically split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia.
On 1991.04.13, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it lost huge territories to establish the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk.
On 2002.02.11 it was suppressed, its territory being merged into the Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk, within which Vladivostok remains a deanery.
Episcopal ordinaries
(probably incomplete; Roman Rite)
- Bishops of Vladivostok
- Karol Slivosky (1923.02.02 – 1933.01.06), Russian.
See also
- Mother of God Church, Vladivostok, possibly the former episcopal see
External links
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- Catholic Preseminary (Novosibirsk)
Magistral Delegation of Russia
Igor Kovalevsky (Chaplain)
- Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia (Byzantine Rite)
- Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe: Mikael Bassalé (Apostolic Administrator)
- Dioceses
- Archdiocese of Mohilev
- Diocese of Tiraspol
- Diocese of Vladivostok
- Apostolic Administration of Minsk-Mohilev
- Apostolic Administration of Moscow [ru]
- Apostolic Administration of Leningrad [ru]
- Apostolic Administration of Odesa
- Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia [ru]
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