Mission Sui Iuris of Turkmenistan
Turcmenistanian(us)
Mission sui iuris · Latin Church · Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan
Latin Church mission sui iuris erected 29 September 1997 from the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan, headquartered in Ashgabat and immediately subject to the Holy See. The Catholic community is tiny (roughly 150 worshippers as of 2014); founding superior Fr. Andrzej Madej, O.M.I. resigned 22 June 2025 and the office is vacant per catholic-hierarchy.org.
The see
- Rank
- Mission sui iuris
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 September 1997
- Latin
- Turcmenistanian(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000529
The see in figures
- Extent
- 488,000 km²
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
- Andrzej Madej
- Born
- 6 October 1951
- Birthplace
- Kazimierz Dolny
- Institute
- MISSIONARI OBLATI DI MARIA IMMACOLATA
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
History
For the Catholics of Turkmenistan there exists a Latin Church mission sui iuris, a pre-diocesan jurisdiction that is exempt, meaning directly subject to the Holy See and outside any ecclesiastical province. Its headquarters are in the Turkmen capital Aşgabat, though it has no see.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Merkezi Poçta, P.O. Box 98, 744000 Aşgabat, Turkmenistan
- Telephone
- [012]927.546; fax 923.683
- [email protected]
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].