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Diocese of Trasfigurazione a Novosibirsk

Neosibirian(us) Transfigurationis

Latin-rite Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk in western Siberia, established as the Apostolic Administration of Siberia in 1991 and promoted to diocese on 11 February 2002, suffragan of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1991
Latin
Neosibirian(us) Transfigurationis
Annuario code
001003268

The see in figures

Catholics
512,000
Population
25,000,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
2.0%
Priests
39
Catholics per priest
13,128
Extent
2,000,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.3

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Joseph Werth, S.J.
Born
4 October 1952
Birthplace
Karaganda
Institute
COMPAGNIA DI GESÙ (GESUITI) (S.I.)

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of the Transfiguration, Novosibirsk stands in Novosibirsk, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Mother of God at Moscow

A suffragan of Mother of God at Moscow.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

A suffragan Latin Church see in the ecclesiastical province of the Mother of God at Moscow, the Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk (Latin: Dioecesis Neosiberiana Transfigurationis) has its cathedral episcopal see at the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in the city of Novosibirsk, in Siberia (Asian Russia).

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.