The Mother of God Church (russian: Церковь Пресвятой Богородицы) It is a

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church, built in a

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, located in

Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea ...

in the

Far East The ''Far East'' was a European term to refer to the geographical regions that includes East and Southeast Asia as well as the Russian Far East to a lesser extent. South Asia is sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons. The ter ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

.Catholic Encyclopedia (Католическая энциклопедия), Moscow, Moscow editions Franciscan Conventuals, 2002, Volume I, pp. 1030-1031, . It is the seat of the

deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...

of Vladivostok, which depends on the Diocese of Irkutsk. It is located at 22 Volodarsky Street. It was formerly a cathedral church.

History

Catholics, mostly Poles, were present in Vladivostok since the mid-nineteenth century. The first Catholic parish in the

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

n Far East appeared during the reign of Alexander II in the city of Nikolaevsk Amur, newly founded in 1866. The city was then the seat of the Czarist Governor General of the Russian Far East. As the imperial (later Soviet) fleet moved to Vladivostok, the new port and fortress under construction attracted a number of people who came from all corners of the Empire, including Polish Catholics, Lithuanians etc. They were artisans, merchants, simple workers or soldiers. The municipal assembly (Duma) donated the land in 1885 until 1886. The parish itself was erected on January 11, 1890, a few months before the start of the construction of the

Trans-Siberian Railway The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR; , , ) connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over , it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the ea ...

to Vladivostok from May 1891. From 1923 to 2002, Vladivostok was the cathedral episcopal see of the

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, canonica ...

, which was merged into the

Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk ( la, Ircutscana Sancti Iosephi) is a diocese located in the city of Irkutsk, which is part of the ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow in Russ ...

and remains a deanery.

References

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History

See also

References