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Suffragan diocese Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine

Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol

Odesen(sis)-Sympheropolitan(us)

Latin Church diocese covering southern Ukraine and Crimea, erected 4 May 2002 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv. The seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Odesa; Auxiliary Bishop Jacek Pyl, O.M.I. assists, and Simferopol still lacks a co-cathedral.

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Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
2002
Catholics
33,000
Priests
57
Territory
138,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M.

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Odesa stands in Odessa-Simferopol, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Southern Ukraine and Crimea fall within the Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol (Latin: Dioecesis Odesensis-Sympheropolitana), a Latin Church territory of the Catholic Church. An important part of the Latin Church in Ukraine, it spans an area roughly a third the size of Poland, including regions touched by the Russian Federation's annexation of Crimea and the pro-Russian unrest of 2014. A de facto inter-state border has divided the diocese since 2014.

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