Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
Camenecen(sis) Latinorum
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
Latin Church diocese in Podilia, Ukraine, founded around 1375 by Pope Urban VI, suppressed under Russian rule in 1866, reactivated in 1918 and formally renewed by Pope John Paul II in 1991. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv; the seat is the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Kamianets-Podilskyi.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1375
- Latin
- Camenecen(sis) Latinorum
- Annuario code
- 001001794
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 250,000
- Population
- 2,942,800
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 8.5%
- Priests
- 178
- Catholics per priest
- 1,404
- Extent
- 47,100 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.3
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
- Eduard Kava, O.F.M.Conv.
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 Sts. Peter and Paul, Kamianets-Podilskyi stands in Kamyanets-Podilskyi, 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 Lviv
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lviv.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LvivLviv
- Diocese of Kharkiv-ZaporizhiaKharkiv
- Diocese of Kyiv-ZhytomyrKyiv-Zhytomyr
- Diocese of LutskLutsk
- Diocese of MukachevoMukachevo
- Diocese of Odessa-SimferopolOdessa-Simferopol
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Ukraine's Latin Church includes the Diocese of Kamianets-Podilskyi (Latin: Dioecesis Camenecensis Latinorum). Its current bishop, Maksymilian Leonid Dubrawski O.F.M, was appointed to the episcopal see on 4 May 2002.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- vul. Frantyskanska 2, 32301 Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraina
- Telephone
- [0673]60-70-57
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.