Diocese of Pinsk
The Diocese of Pinsk is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Belarus. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev.
Its cathedral is a minor basilica: the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the episcopal see of Pinsk.
History
- 28 October 1925: Established as Diocese of Pinsk/Пінская /Pinsken Latinorum, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Minsk, then suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vilnius
- Lost territory on 1991.06.05 to establish the Diocese of Drohiczyn.
- In 1993, the diocesan Caritas was established.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 50,825 Catholics on 72,700 km2 in 87 parishes with 52 priests, 62 lay religious and 8 seminarians.Episcopal ordinaries
Bishops of Pinsk- Zygmunt Łoziński, previously Bishop of Minsk
- Kazimierz Bukraba
- Apostolic Administrator Władysław Jędruszuk, while Auxiliary Bishop of Pinsk and Titular Bishop of Clysma ; later Bishop of Drohiczyn
- *Apostolic Administrator Kazimierz Świątek while Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, created Cardinal-Priest of S. Gerardo Maiella, President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus
- *Apostolic Administrator Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz while Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Vice-President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus ; previously Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus as Apostolic Administrator of Minsk, Apostolic Administrator of Northern European Russia, President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia, Metropolitan Archbishop of (Mother of God at) Moscow ; later President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus
- Antoni Dziemianko, previously Titular Bishop of Lesvi as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Grodno and as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev, Secretary General of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus, Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev .