Diocese Of Vladivostok on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vladivostok was a Latin Catholic bishopric in eastern Russia and West Turkestan (1923-2002).
GCatholic, with Google satellite photo
{{Roman Catholic Church in Russia Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Europe Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Asia Christian organizations established in 1923 1923 establishments in Russia Religious organizations disestablished in 2002 2002 disestablishments in Russia Christian organizations disestablished in the 2000s
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vladivostok was a Latin Catholic bishopric in eastern Russia and West Turkestan (1923-2002).
History
It was established on 2 February 1923 as Diocese of Vladivostok, on Czarist Russian imperial territory, canonically split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia. On 1991.04.13, following thedissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
, it lost huge territories to establish the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk.
On 2002.02.11 it was suppressed, its territory being merged into the Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk, within which Vladivostok remains a deanery.
Episcopal ordinaries
(probably incomplete;Roman Rite
The Roman Rite ( la, Ritus Romanus) is the primary liturgical rite of the Latin Church, the largest of the ''sui iuris'' particular churches that comprise the Catholic Church. It developed in the Latin language in the city of Rome and, while dist ...
)
;''Bishops of Vladivostok''
* Karol Slivosky (1923.02.02 – 1933.01.06), Russian.
See also
* Mother of God Church, Vladivostok, possibly the former episcopal seeExternal links
GCatholic, with Google satellite photo
{{Roman Catholic Church in Russia Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Europe Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Asia Christian organizations established in 1923 1923 establishments in Russia Religious organizations disestablished in 2002 2002 disestablishments in Russia Christian organizations disestablished in the 2000s