Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese Metr. Archdiocese

Name: Mother of God at Moscow (English) / Ма́тери Бо́жией в Москве (русский язык) / Madre di Dio a Mosca (Italiano) / Moscovien(sis) Matris Dei (Latin)

Suffragan Sees: Saint Clement at Saratov, Saint Joseph at Irkutsk, Transfiguration at Novosibirsk

Neighbouring Dioceses: Kharkiv–Zaporizhia (↙), Kyïv–Žytomyr (↙), Pinsk (↙), Minsk–Mohilev (←), Vitebsk (←), Rēzekne–Aglona (←), Tallinn (↖), Helsinki (↖), Tromsø (↖), Transfiguration at Novosibirsk (→), Saint Clement at Saratov (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Immaculate Conception (December 8)

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: December 12

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

1991.04.13: Established as Apostolic Administration of European Russia (English) / Russia Europea (Italiano) / Russiæ Europææ Latinuorum (Latin) (from Diocese of Tiraspol and from the suppressed Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev)
1992.03.25: Gained territory from Diocese of Warmia
1999.11.23: Renamed as Apostolic Administration of Northern European Russia (English) / Russia Europea Settentrionale (Italiano) / Russiæ Europææ Septentrionali Latinuorum (Latin) (lost territory to establish Apostolic Administration of Southern European Russia)
2002.02.11: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow (English) / Ма́тери Бо́жией в Москве (русский язык) / Madre di Dio a Mosca (Italiano) / Moscovien(sis) Matris Dei (Latin) (with suffragan sees Saint Clement at Saratov, Saint Joseph at Irkutsk and Transfiguration at Novosibirsk)

Present Prelates

Metropolitan Archbishop:

vacant

Apostolic Administrator (2026.05.02 – ...):

Bishop Nicolai Gennadevich Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv. (52)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ in Byzacena

Vice-President of Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors (U.C.E.S.M.)

Auxiliary Bishop (2020.07.30 – ...):

Bishop Nicolai Gennadevich Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv. (52)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ in Byzacena

Vice-President of Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors (U.C.E.S.M.)

Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Mother of God at Moscow (Roman Rite)

Bishop Nicolai Gennadevich Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv. (52)
(Apostolic Administrator 2026.05.02 – ...)

Archbishop Pavel Pezzi, F.S.C.B. (65)
(2007.09.21 – 2026.05.02)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Mother of God at Moscow (Russia)

Gloriæ Christi passio

Born:	1960.08.08 (Russi, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1990.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.10.27

Metropolitan Archbishop of Mother of God at Moscow (Russia) (2007.09.21 – 2026.05.02)

President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (2011.01.19 – 2017.03.17)

President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (2020.03.12 – 2026.03.18)

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (80)
(2002.02.11 – 2007.09.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Minsk–Mohilev (Belarus)
former President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus

Quis ut Deus

Born:	1946.01.03 (Odelsk, Belarus)
Ordained Priest:	1981.05.31
Consecrated Bishop:	1989.10.20

Priest of Kaunas (Lithuania) (1981.05.31 – 1989.05.10)

Apostolic Administrator of Minsk (Belarus) (1989.05.10 – 1991.04.13)

Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus (1989.05.10 – 2002.02.11)

Apostolic Administrator of Northern European Russia (Russia) (1991.04.13 – 2002.02.11)

President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (1999.03.02 – 2005.01.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Mother of God at Moscow (Russia) (2002.02.11 – 2007.09.21)

Vice-President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus (2006.06.14 – 2015.06.03)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk–Mohilev (Belarus) (2007.09.21 – 2021.01.03)

Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk (Belarus) (2011.06.30 – 2012.05.03)

President of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus (2015.06.03 – 2021.01.03)

Apostolic Administrators of Northern European Russia (Roman Rite)

Bishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (80) (later Archbishop)
(1991.04.13 – 2002.02.11)

(see above)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Clemens Pickel (64) (1998.03.23 – 1999.11.23)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Mother of God, Moscow (Москва), Central
Former Cathedral: Former Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург), Northwestern
Minor Basilica: Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург), Northwestern
Former Cathedral (now Orthodox church): Königsberg Cathedral, Kaliningrad (Калининград), Northwestern
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Kharkiv–Zaporizhia (↙), Kyïv–Žytomyr (↙), Pinsk (↙), Minsk–Mohilev (←), Vitebsk (←), Rēzekne–Aglona (←), Tallinn (↖), Helsinki (↖), Tromsø (↖), Transfiguration at Novosibirsk (→), Saint Clement at Saratov (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 2,629,000 km²

Population: 70,180 Catholics (0.1% of 58,060,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 63 parishes, 18 missions

Personnel: 102 priests (50 diocesan, 52 religious), 153 religious (90 brothers, 63 sisters), 4 seminarians