The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia ( la, Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine.

Pavlo Honcharuk Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk ( uk, Павло Гончарук; born 16 January 1978) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate who serves as a Diocesan bishop of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhia since 6 January 2020. Life Bishop Honcharuk was born in the Roman Ca ...

is the current bishop of the diocese. The diocesan seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kharkiv, and the co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of the Merciful Father in Zaporizhzhia.

History

The diocese was created in 2002, when territory from the dioceses of the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, and the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr was split off and merged. The result created two dioceses with Catholic of around 5 percent, and one diocese with only 0.4, which is one of the lowest for any diocese.

Geography

The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins.

Ordinaries

*Bishop Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M.Cap. (4 May 2002 – 19 March 2009) **coadjutor bishop

Marian Buczek Marian Buczek (born March 14, 1953, in Cieszanów, Poland) was the Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv in 2002-2009, and the diocesan Roman Catholic Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporojian in 2009-2014. In the years 1973-1979, he studied at the Seminar ...

(16 July 2007 – 19 March 2009) *Bishop

(19 March 2009 – 12 April 2014) ** auxiliary bishop

Jan Sobilo Bishop Jan Sobilo ( uk, Ян Собіло; pl, Jan Władysław Sobiło; born 31 May 1962 in Nisko, Poland) is a Polish-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, who serves as an Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia an ...

(30 October 2010 – present), ''titular bishop of Bulna'' *Bishop Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (12 April 2014 – 2 February 2019) * Apostolic Administrator Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (2 February 2019 – 6 January 2020) *Bishop

(since 6 January 2020)

Notes

References

GCatholic.org

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