Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana
The Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Kazakhstan.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, in the Kazakh national capital Astana. The founding and only apostolic administrator, Tomasz Peta, was appointed the first Archbishop of Mary Most Holy in Astana by John Paul II on May 17, 1999.
History
Pope John Paul II erected it as the Apostolic Administration of Astana on July 7, 1999, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan, and visited it in September 2001.The same pope promoted it to the Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana on May 17, 2003.
Province
Its ecclesiastical province comprises the metropolitan's own archdiocese and the following suffragan jurisdictions :Ordinaries of Astana
;Apostolic Administrator of Astana;Metropolitan Archbishops of Astana
- Tomasz Peta, also President of Episcopal Conference of Kazakhstan