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Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia

Kharkivien(sis)-Zaporizhien(sis)

Latin Church diocese covering 196,300 km2 of eastern Ukraine, erected 4 May 2002 from territory of Kamianets-Podilskyi and Kyiv-Zhytomyr. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv; the seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kharkiv, with a co-cathedral in Zaporizhzhia.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
4 May 2002
Latin
Kharkivien(sis)-Zaporizhien(sis)
Annuario code
001001842

The see in figures

Catholics
48,430
Population
15,621,350
Catholic share
0.3%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
36
Catholics per priest
1,345
Extent
196,300 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
Pavlo Honcharuk

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, Kharkiv stands in Kharkiv, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of the Merciful Father, Zaporizhzhia.

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

The Latin Church in Ukraine includes the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia (Latin: Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis), currently led by Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk. The diocesan seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kharkiv, with the Co-Cathedral of the Merciful Father in Zaporizhzhia serving alongside it.

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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

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].