Skip to the diocese
Catholic Intelligence
J.M.J.Search

Metropolitan see Moscow, Russia

Archdiocese of Madre di Dio a Mosca

Moscovien(sis) Matris Dei

Latin Church

Latin-rite metropolitan Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow, established as an apostolic administration in 1991 and promoted to metropolitan archdiocese on 11 February 2002, with suffragans Saint Clement at Saratov, Saint Joseph at Irkutsk and the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. The see is vacant: Archbishop Paolo Pezzi resigned in May 2026 and Bishop Nicolai Dubinin serves as apostolic administrator.

On the map

Esri
Moscow, Russia, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

Every see on one map: browse the dioceses. Churches with recorded hours: find Mass times.

Established
1991
Catholics
200,000
Priests
102
Territory
2,629,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Archbishop
Paolo Pezzi
Born
8 August 1960
Birthplace
Russi
Institute
FRATERNITÀ SACERDOTALE DEI MISSIONARI DI S. CARLO BORROMEO (F.S.C.B.)

Explore the ministry of the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Moscow stands in Moscow, 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

Moscow, in Russia, is the seat of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow, also called simply the Archdiocese of Moscow (Latin: Archidioecesis Moscoviensis Matris Dei; Russian: Архиепархия Матери Божией в Москве), a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church.

This see in the wire

Filed by the see itself

Published on the see's own news feed. A diocese reports on the whole Church, so these are often about somewhere else.

35 stories in the wire either name this see or come from its own feed. Read the wire.