Diocese of

Saint Joseph at Irkutsk

Russia Russia

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Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (English) / Святого Иосифа в Иркутске (русский язык) / San Giuseppe a Irkutsk (Italiano) / Ircutscan(us) Sancti Iosephi (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Mother of God at Moscow

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Joseph (March 19)

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

Present Prelates

Bishop (2003.04.17 – ...):Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (71)Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (71)

Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia)

Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia

Ordinaries

Bishops of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Roman Rite)

Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (71)Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (71)
(2003.04.17 – ...)

Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia)
Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia)
Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia

Fortes in fide

Born:1952.11.05 (Amangeldi, Kazakhstan)
Ordained Priest:1980.06.08
Consecrated Bishop:1999.12.04

Priest of Warmia (Poland) (1980.06.08 – 1999.10.13)

Titular Bishop of Arba (1999.10.13 – 2003.04.17)

Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk–Mohilev (Belarus) (1999.10.13 – 2003.04.17)

Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia) (2003.04.17 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia) (2003.04.17 – ...)

Vice-President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (2023.01.03 – ...)

Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (71)Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (71)
(2002.02.11 – 2003.04.17)

Bishop of Ełk (Poland)

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Born:1953.08.05 (Hawlowice, Poland)
Ordained Priest:1979.04.22
Consecrated Bishop:1998.05.31

Apostolic Administrator of Novosibirsk (Russia) (1998.03.23 – 1999.05.18)

Titular Bishop of Tabunia (1998.03.23 – 2002.02.11)

Apostolic Administrator of Eastern Siberia (Russia) (1999.05.18 – 2002.02.11)

Apostolic Administrator of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia) (2000 – 2003.04.17)

Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia) (2002.02.11 – 2003.04.17)

Bishop of Ełk (Poland) (2003.04.17 – ...)

Apostolic Administrators of Eastern Siberia (Roman Rite)

Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (71)Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (71)
(1999.05.18 – 2002.02.11)

(see above)

Special Churches

Transfiguration at Novosibirsk (←), Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (→), Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾 (↘), Ulaanbaatar (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 9,960,000 km²

Population: 53,140 Catholics (0.4% of 14,700,440 total)

Pastoral Centres: 43 parishes

Personnel: 39 priests (6 diocesan, 33 religious), 93 religious (40 brothers, 53 sisters), 1 seminarian

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Pastoral Centres

Priests

Religious

Seminarians

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