Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk
The Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Mother of God at Moscow.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, in the city of Novosibirsk, in Siberia.
History
- Established on April 13, 1991 as Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk, on territory split off from the Diocese of Vladivostok and the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev
- Renamed on May 18, 1999 as Apostolic Administration of Western Siberia, having lost territory to establish the then Apostolic Administration of Eastern Siberia
- Promoted and renamed-back on February 11, 2002 as '''Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk'''
Ordinaries
; Apostolic Administrators of Novosibirsk- Joseph Werth, Jesuits,, Titular Bishop of Bulna
- Jerzy Mazur, Divine Word Missionaries, Titular Bishop of Tabunia, later Apostolic Administrator of Eastern Siberia, Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk, Bishop of Ełk
- Joseph Werth, S.J.
- Joseph Werth, S.J., President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 512,000 Catholics on 2,000,000 km2 in 70 parishes and 160 missions with 38 priests, 1 deacon and 77 lay religious.Dependent churches include: