Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol
Odesen(sis)-Sympheropolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 4 May 2002
- Latin
- Odesen(sis)-Sympheropolitan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001002443
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 33,000
- Population
- 9,980,000
- Catholic share
- 0.3%
- Extent
- 138,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M.
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, Odesa stands in Odessa-Simferopol, 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.
The province of Lviv
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lviv.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LvivLviv
- Diocese of Kamyanets-PodilskyiKamyanets-Podilskyi
- Diocese of Kharkiv-ZaporizhiaKharkiv
- Diocese of Kyiv-ZhytomyrKyiv-Zhytomyr
- Diocese of LutskLutsk
- Diocese of MukachevoMukachevo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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.
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].