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Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol

Odesen(sis)-Sympheropolitan(us)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine

Latin Church diocese covering southern Ukraine and Crimea, erected 4 May 2002 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv. The seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Odesa; Auxiliary Bishop Jacek Pyl, O.M.I. assists, and Simferopol still lacks a co-cathedral.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
4 May 2002
Latin
Odesen(sis)-Sympheropolitan(us)
Annuario code
001002443

The see in figures

Catholics
33,000
Population
9,980,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
0.3%
Priests
57
Catholics per priest
579
Extent
138,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.2

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
Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M.

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 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Odesa stands in Odessa-Simferopol, 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:

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

History

Southern Ukraine and Crimea fall within the Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol (Latin: Dioecesis Odesensis-Sympheropolitana), a Latin Church territory of the Catholic Church. An important part of the Latin Church in Ukraine, it spans an area roughly a third the size of Poland, including regions touched by the Russian Federation's annexation of Crimea and the pro-Russian unrest of 2014. A de facto inter-state border has divided the diocese since 2014.

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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.