Diocese of Karaganda
The Diocese of Karaganda is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Mary Most Holy in Astana, yet remains subject to the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. The city also had the former Cathedral of St. Joseph.
History
On 13 April 1991 the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan was established on vast territory, most of ex-Soviet Turkestan, split off from the Diocese of Vladivostok.On 29 September 1997, territory was split off to form the Mission sui juris of Uzbekistan, the Mission sui juris of Tajikistan and the Mission sui juris of Turkmenistan. Additionally, on 22 December 1997, further territory was removed from the Apostolic Administration to establish the Mission sui juris of Kyrgyzstan.
The Apostolic Administration was promoted on 7 July 1999 as the Diocese of Karaganda, losing further territory to establish the Apostolic Administration of Astana, the Apostolic Administration of Almaty and the Apostolic Administration of Atyrau.
Statistics
As per 2014, the diocese pastorally served 8,340 Catholics on 711,208 km² in 19 parishes and 2 missions with 19 priests and 38 lay religious.Episcopal ordinaries
Apostolic Administrator of Kazakhstan- Jan Pawel Lenga, M.I.C., Ukrainian; Titular Bishop of Arba
- Jan Pawel Lenga, M.I.C., personally promoted Archbishop-Bishop of Karaganda
- Janusz Wiesław Kaleta, Polish; previously Titular Bishop of Phelbes as Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau and later Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of above Atyrau ; lay state since 30 May 2016
- Adelio Dell’Oro, Italian; previously Titular Bishop of Castulo as Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau
Auxiliary bishops
- Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C., titular bishop of Celerina
- Yevgeniy Zinkovskiy, titular bishop of Maiuca