Bishop Yevgeniy Zinkovskiy ( kz, Евгений Зинковский; born 27 July 1975) is a Kazakh Roman Catholic prelate, who currently serves as the Titular Bishop of

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and Auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda The Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Mary Most Holy in Astana, yet remains subject to the missionary Congregation for the Evangelizatio ...

since 29 June 2021.

Early life and education

Zinkovskiy was born in the present day

Akmola Region Akmola Region ( kz, Ақмола облысы, translit=Aqmola oblysy; russian: Акмолинская область, Akmolinskaya oblast) is a centrally located region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Kokshetau. The national capital, Astana, is en ...

in a family of a Polish descents. His grandparents were forcibly deported by the Soviets from present day

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. His family emigrated to

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in 1997. After graduation of the school education in

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, he joined Major Theological Seminary in

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, Poland (1992–1998) and was ordained as a

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for the Diocese of Karaganda on 1 August 1999, after completed his philosophical and theological studies.

Pastoral and educational work

He returned to Kazakhstan and began to work in the formational and pastoral camps. Fr. Zinkovskiy was a prefect in the Major Theological Seminary in Karaganda (1998–1999) and assistant priest in the St. Joseph parish in Maikuduk (1999–2001), with the break during 2001–2003, when he studied at the

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ( la, Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis, it, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce) is a Roman Catholic university under the Curial Congregation for Catholic Education, now entrusted to the Prela ...

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with the licentiate of the philosophy degree. Returning to Karaganda, he was appointed a lecturer of philosophy at the Interdiocesan Seminary. At the same time, in 2003–2011, he served as a parish priest, first in Balkhash (2003–2009), and then in

Temirtau Temirtau ( kz, Теміртау, translit=Temırtau; russian: Темиртау) is a city in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. The population was 170,481 in the 1999 census, rising to 210,590 in 2015. The city is located on the Nura River (the ...

(2009–2011). In 2011, Fr. Yevgeniy was appointed chancellor of the diocesan curia and editor-in-chief of the Kazakh Catholic magazine ''Credo''. During 2014–2015, he was also the diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Karaganda, during vacancy of this see. Since 2015 Fr. Zinkovskiy holds the positions of

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and chancellor of the curia of the Diocese of Karaganda. In 2018, he received his

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degree from the

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, Poland.

Prelate

On 29 June 2021 Fr. Zinkovskiy was appointed by

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as an auxiliary bishop of the

and

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. On 12 September 2021 he was consecrated as bishop by Bishop Adelio Dell'Oro and other prelates of the

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in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima in

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. On 29 April 2022 he was elected the General Secretary of the newly created

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References

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