Mission Sui Iuris of Tadjikistan
Tadzikistanian(us)
Mission sui iuris · Latin Church · Tadjikistan, Tajikistan
Latin rite mission sui iuris covering the Republic of Tajikistan, established on 29 September 1997 from the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and directly subject to the Holy See. Its principal church is St. Joseph Church in Dushanbe, serving one of the world's smallest Catholic communities.
The see
- Rank
- Mission sui iuris
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 September 1997
- Latin
- Tadzikistanian(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000527
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 100
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
- Ecclesiastical Superior
- Fr. Pedro Ramiro Lopez, I.V.E.
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
St. Joseph Church, Dushanbe stands in Tadjikistan, 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
In Tajikistan (West Turkistan, Central Asia), the Catholic community forms part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Estimates placed the community at 300 people in 2009 and around 100 by 2020, with 4 priests and 8 nuns across two parishes. Catholics there are organized as a Mission sui iuris (a pre-diocesan jurisdiction, also called an Independent Mission), exempt and thus directly subject to the Holy See rather than belonging to any ecclesiastical province. It comprises three churches, in the Tajik capital Dushanbe and in Vakhsh near Bokhtar, but has no see.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- 10 Titova Street, 734012 Dushanbe, Tadjikistan
- Telephone
- 918.750.662; fax [37]226.76.59
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].