St. Anne's Church (russian: Храм Святой Анны) is a Roman Catholic church located in Yekaterinburg, in the Diocese of Novosibirsk in Russia, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow. This church belongs to the group of parishes of the deanery of the Urals. The parish is run by the Sisters of the Congregation of Missionary Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate, founded by St. Vincent Pallotti (1795-1850).

History

The parish was founded in 1876 and included more than a thousand faithful. In 1884, the first stone church was built, entrusted to the patronage of St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. His parish priest was shot after the October Revolution and the church was secularized. It was destroyed about 1960. The parish was restored in the 1990s after the dissolution of the USSR, and a new church was built and consecrated in 2000 by Bishop

Joseph Werth Joseph Werth SJ (russian: Иосиф Иоганнович Верт; born October 4, 1952 in Karaganda) is Bishop of Transfiguration in Novosibirsk (Russia). Named as the Latin Church Apostolic Administrator of Siberia—a see that encompassed 4 ...

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