Diocese of Pinsk, Belarus

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Pinsk / Пінская (Беларуская) / Pinsken(sis) Latinorum (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Minsk–Mohilev

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Andrzej Bobola

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History

1925.10.28: Established as Diocese of Pinsk / Пінская (Беларуская) / Pinsken(sis) Latinorum (Latin) (from Diocese of Minsk and became suffragan of Vilnius)
1991.04.13: Gained territory from the suppressed Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev, lost territory to establish Diocese of Grodno, exchanged territory with Diocese of Minsk and became suffragan of Minsk–Mohilev
1991.06.05: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Drohiczyn
1996.05.18: Lost territory to Diocese of Lutsk

Present Prelates

Bishop (2012.05.03 – ...):	Bishop Antoni Dziemianko (Антонi Дзям’янка) (64)
Auxiliary Bishop (2024.07.19 – ...):	Bishop Andrei Znoska (44) Titular Bishop of Skradin

Ordinaries

Bishops of Pinsk (Roman Rite)

Bishop Antoni Dziemianko (Антонi Дзям’янка) (64)
(2012.05.03 – ...)

Bishop of Pinsk (Belarus)

Ut unum sint

Born:	1960.01.01 (Zabrodzie-Derevno, Belarus)
Ordained Priest:	1980.10.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.09.29

Priest of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Marian Fathers) (1980.10.28 – 1985.04.26)

Priest of Minsk–Mohilev (Belarus) (1985.04.26 – 1998.07.04)

Auxiliary Bishop of Grodno (Belarus) (1998.07.04 – 2004.12.14)

Titular Bishop of Lesvi (1998.07.04 – 2012.05.03)

Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk–Mohilev (Belarus) (2004.12.14 – 2012.05.03)

General Secretary of Catholic Episcopal Conference of Belarus (2006? – 2015.06.03)

Apostolic Administrator of Minsk–Mohilev (Belarus) (2006.06.14 – 2007.09.21)

Bishop of Pinsk (Belarus) (2012.05.03 – ...)

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (78)
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.06.30 – 2012.05.03)

Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek (Казімір Свёнтэк)
(Apostolic Administrator 1991.04.13 – 2011.06.30)

Bishop Wladyslaw Jedruszuk
(Apostolic Administrator 1967 – 1991.06.05)

Bishop Kazimierz Bukraba
(1932.07.10 – 1946.05.06)

Born:	1885.11.23 (Belarus)
Ordained Priest:	1909.02.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1932.08.21
Died:	1946.05.06 († 60)

Bishop of Pinsk (Belarus) (1932.07.10 – 1946.05.06)

Bishop Zygmunt Łoziński
(1925.10.28 – 1932.03.26)

Born:	1870.07.05
Ordained Priest:	1895.06.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1918.07.23
Died:	1932.03.26 († 61)

Bishop of Minsk (Belarus) (1917.11.02 – 1925.10.28)

Bishop of Pinsk (Belarus) (1925.10.28 – 1932.03.26)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Kazimierz Wielikosielec (Казiмiр Велікаселец), O.P. (79) (1999.05.06 – 2024.10.10)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Wladyslaw Jedruszuk (1962.11.19 – 1991.06.05)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Karol Niemira (1933.05.26 – 1946)

Special Churches

Cathedral, Minor Basilica: Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pinsk

Lutsk (↙), Siedlce (←), Drohiczyn (←), Białystok (↖), Grodno (↖), Minsk–Mohilev (↑), Mother of God at Moscow (→), Kyïv–Žytomyr (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 72,700 km²

Population: 54,140 Catholics (2.0% of 2,716,430 total)

Pastoral Centres: 88 parishes

Personnel: 53 priests (34 diocesan, 19 religious), 60 religious (24 brothers, 36 sisters), 7 seminarians