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Suffragan diocese Pinsk, Belarus

Diocese of Pinsk

Pinsken(sis) Latinorum

Latin Church

Latin-rite diocese in southern Belarus covering the Brest and Gomel regions. Erected 28 October 1925 from the then Diocese of Minsk and today a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev. Its cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pinsk.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pinsk, in Pinsk, Belarus.

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Established
1925
Catholics
50,825
Priests
53
Territory
72,700 km²

Parishes and churches

90 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Antoni Dziemianko
Born
1 January 1960
Birthplace
Zabrodzie-Derevno

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The cathedral

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pinsk stands in Pinsk, 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.

History

A Latin Church diocese in Belarus, Pinsk (Latin: Pinsken(sis) Latinorum, Belarusian: Пінская) belongs as a suffragan to the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev. Its cathedral, in the episcopal see of Pinsk, holds the rank of minor basilica: the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.