The Catholic Church in Russia, united in the

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of Russia, comprises * one Latin

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(the Metropolitan archdiocese of Moscow, with three Suffragan dioceses) and a missionary (hence exempt) apostolic prefecture. * The Eastern Catholics have two proper jurisdictions, each belonging to a different

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''sui iuris'' and using a different rite. There are no exempt Latin jurisdictions. There is an Apostolic Nunciature as papal diplomatic representation (embassy-level) to the Russian Federation in the national capital

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Current Jurisdictions

Latin Church

Ecclesiastical Province of Moscow

* Metropolitan Archdiocese of Moscow ** Diocese of Novosibirsk ** Diocese of Saratov ** Diocese of Irkutsk

Exempt jurisdiction

(''directly subject to the Holy See'') *

Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk The Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk is a Latin Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on the Russian (ex-Japanese) Far Eastern island Sakhalin. It is exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See (not part of any ecclesiastica ...

Eastern Catholic Particular Churches

Russian Catholic Church

(

Byzantine Rite The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople. Th ...

) *''

Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia The Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia is the ''sui iuris'' Eastern Catholic jurisdiction of the Catholic Church for Russian language Byzantine Rite in Russia. It is one of only two components of the dormant Russian Greek Catholic Chu ...

Armenian Catholic Church

(

Armenian Rite The Armenian Rite () is an independent liturgy used by both the Armenian Apostolic and Armenian Catholic Churches. Liturgy The liturgy is patterned after the directives of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, first official head and patron saint ...

) *'' Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, jointly for Russia,

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Georgia (country) Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest ...

and

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

Defunct jurisdictions

Titular sees

(all Latin) * One non-metropolitan

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* Two Latin

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s **

Matrega Phanagoria ( grc, Φαναγόρεια, Phanagóreia; russian: Фанагория, translit=Fanagoriya) was the largest ancient Greek city on the Taman peninsula, spread over two plateaus along the eastern shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus. The c ...

, formerly

Diocese of Matriga Phanagoria ( grc, Φαναγόρεια, Phanagóreia; russian: Фанагория, translit=Fanagoriya) was the largest ancient Greek city on the Taman peninsula, spread over two plateaus along the eastern shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus. The ci ...

** Latin Titular bishopric of

Tanais Tanais ( el, Τάναϊς ''Tánaïs''; russian: Танаис) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek city in the Don River (Russia), Don river delta, called the Maeotian Swamp, Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. It was a bishopric as Tana ...

, formerly of Tana, formerly

Diocese of Tana Tanais ( el, Τάναϊς ''Tánaïs''; russian: Танаис) was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. It was a bishopric as Tana and remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Tanais. ...

Other former dioceses

:''Exclusing merely renamed/promoted predecessors of current jurisdictions'' ; Latin *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cherson The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tiraspol was a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese on Czarist/Soviet-controlled territory in and around what is now the republic of Moldova. History It was established on 3 July 1848 as Diocese of Cherson, on Czarist ...

alias

Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

(partially in

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) *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sambia The Bishopric of Samland (Sambia) (german: Bistum Samland, pl, Diecezja sambijska) was a bishopric in Samland (Sambia) in medieval Prussia. It was founded as a Roman Catholic diocese in 1243 by papal legate William of Modena. Its seat was Köni ...

(German Samland) *

Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia The Roman Catholic Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk ( la, Neosiberian(a) Transfigurationis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mother of God at Moscow. Its cathedral episc ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Smolensk The Roman Catholic Diocese of Smolensk was a Latin Catholic diocese, founded in 1636 and dissolved in 1818, initially located in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and later on, in Czarist Russia. History The Roman Rite bishopric was establ ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Vladivostok 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, canonic ...

;''Eastern Catholic'' *''

Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Smolensk The Ruthenian Catholic Archeparchy of Smolensk ( la, Dioecesis Smolenscensis Ruthenorum, pl, Arcybiskupstwo smoleńskie) is a former eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the Ruthenian Uniate Church (using a Byzantine Rite) (1625-1778) in part of ...

Crimea

After the

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

peninsula was unilaterally annexed by the Russian Federation in March 2014, the Catholic hierarchy was not subsequently changed. The Latin rite Catholics of Crimea belong to the diocese of Odessa-Simferopol which is a Suffragan of the archdiocese of Lviv.

References

External links

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