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 (2007.09.21 – ...):

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

President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia

Auxiliary Bishop (2020.07.30 – ...):

Bishop Nicolai Dubinin Gennadevich, 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)

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

Metropolitan Archbishop of Mother of God at Moscow (Russia)
President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of 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 – ...)

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 – ...)

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