The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr ( la, Dioecesis Kioviensis-Zytomeriensis) is a
suffragan
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St. Sophia's Cathedral, Zhytomyr
Saint Sophia Cathedral ( uk, Кафедральний собор св. Софії) is a Catholic church that serves as the principal church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
The temple was built between 1746 and 1748 and wa ...
. It also has, both in Kyiv: a Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander, and a former cathedral, now Church of St. Nicholas.
History
* Established in 1321 as Diocese of Kyiv / Chiovien(sis) (Latin) / Kiovien(sis) (Latin adjective)
* The Diocese of Kyiv was established once more in 1405, with the help of the Dominican order.
* Renamed in 1638 as Diocese of Kijów-Czernihów / Kyiv and Chernihiv (English) / Kiovien(sis) et Chiovien(sis) (Latin)
* Suppressed on 1798.08.08, its territory being reassigned to establish the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk and Zytomierz
The Roman Catholic diocese of Lutsk was first established in the 13th century as the diocese of Luceoria (Latin) or Łuck (Polish). After the victory of Napoleon, the diocese was joined with the diocese of Zhytomyr, forming the diocese of Lutzk-Zh ...
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* Restored on 1998.11.25 as Diocese of Kyïv–Zhytomyr / Kiovien(sis)–Zytomerien(sis) (Latin) on territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Zhytomyr (itself split off in 1925 from the Diocese of Lutsk-Zhytomyr), whose last incumbent was appointed here
* Lost a substantial portion of the diocesan territory on 4 May 2002, to establish the Diocese of Kharkiv–Zaporizhia.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 219,600 Catholics (2.7% of 8,182,668 total) on 111,600 km² in 162 parishes and 124 missions with 160 priests (60 diocesan, 100 religious), 277 lay religious (112 brothers, 165 sisters) and 36 seminarians.
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Roman Rite
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;''Suffragan Bishops of Kyiv (Kijów, Kiev)''
* Henryk, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1321 – ?)
* Jakub, O.P. (? – death 1386)
* Mikołaj, O.P. (? – ?)
* Borzysław, O.P. (? – ?)
* Andrzej (1397 – death 1434)
* Jan (? – death 1466)
* Klemens (? – death 1473)
* Jan Filipowicz (1519 – death 1537)
* Franciszek (? – death 1551)
* Jan Andruszewicz (1545 – 1556.08.27), next Bishop of Łuck and Włodzimierz ( Poland) (1556.08.27 – death 1567)
* Mikołaj Pac (1557 – death 1585)
* Józef Wereszczyński (1592 – death 1598)
* Krzysztof Kazimirski (1598 – death 1618.06.15)
* Bogusław Radoszewski (1619.01.17 – 1633.06.06), next Bishop of Łuck (Poland) (1633.06.06 – death 1638)
* Bishop-electAndrzej Szołdrski (1633 – 1635.01.14); after his episcopal consecration Bishop of Poznań (Poland) (1635.01.14 – death 1650.04.01) and Bishop of
Przemyśl
Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...
(Poland) (1635.08.14 – 1636.07.21)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Kijów–Czernihów''
* Aleksander Sokołowski (1636.07.21 – death 1645.05.09)
* Stanisław Zaremba (1646.04.23 – death 1653.08.03)
* Jan Leszczyński (1655–1656)
* Tomasz Ujejski, Jesuit Order (S.J.) (1656 – resigned 1676), also/next Auxiliary Bishop of Warmia ( Poland) (1666 – death 1689.08.01)
** Auxiliary Bishop: Stanislaus Giannotti, Canons Regular of Saint Augustine (C.R.S.A.) (1659.12.01 – death 1681), Titular Bishop of
Fez
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(1659.12.01 – 1681)
* Jan Stanisław Witwicki (1679.06.12 – 1682.05.25), next Bishop of Łuck (Poland) (1682.05.25 – 1687.11.24), Bishop of Poznań (Poland) (1687.11.24 – 1698.03.04)
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Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski
Andrzej Załuski Chrysostom (1650 – 12 May 1711) was a seventeenth-century Polish preacher, translator, prolific writer, Chancellor of the Crown and bishop.
Early life
He was born in 1650 in Kiev, into the Junosza noble family, the son of Ale ...
(1683.11.15 – 1692.10.15), next Bishop of Płock (Poland) (1692.10.15 – 1699.05.25), Bishop of Warmia (Poland) ( 698.06.061699.05.25 – death 1711.05.01) and Apostolic Administrator of Sambia ( Prussia) (1699.05.25 – 1711.05.01)
* Mikołaj Stanisław Święcicki (1697–1699), next Bishop of Poznań (Poland) (1699 – death 1707)
* Jan Paweł Gomoliński (1698 – death 1711)
* Walenty Maciej Arcemberski (? – 1717)
* Jan Joachim Tarło, S.J. (1718.12.05 – 1723.03.15), next Bishop of Poznań (Poland) (
722
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1723.03.15 – 1732.08.13)
* Samuel Jan Ożga (1723.09.27 – death 1756.04.19)
**
Coadjutor Bishop
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: Józef Antoni Łaszcz (1741.08.07 – 1748.01.31), Titular Bishop of Antipatris (1738.06.23 – 1748.01.31), previously as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Chełm (Poland) (1738.06.23 – 1741.08.07)
** Auxiliary Bishop: Antoni Dominik Tyszkiewicz (1739.07.20 – 1740.09.16), Titular Bishop of Mennith (1739.07.20 – 1740.09.16); later Bishop of Samogitia (
Lithuania
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) (1740.09.16 – death 1762.01.31)
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Kajetan Ignacy Sołtyk
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(1756.04.19 – 1759.03.13), succeeding as previous
Coadjutor Bishop
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of Kijów–Czernihów (1749.09.22 – 1756.04.19) and Titular Bishop of Emmaus (1749.09.22 – 1756.04.19); later Bishop of Kraków (Poland) ( 759.02.121759.03.13 – death 1788.07.30)
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Józef Andrzej Załuski
Józef Andrzej Załuski (12 January 17029 January 1774) was a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Kiev, a sponsor of learning and culture, and a renowned bibliophile. A member of the Polish nobility (''szlachta''), bearing the hereditary Junosza ...
(1759.09 – death 1774.01.07)
** Auxiliary Bishop: Józef Michał Ignacy Franciszek Olędzki, Piarists (Sch. P.) (1763.01.24 – retired 1781), Titular Bishop of Cambysopolis (1763.01.24 – death 1803)
* Ignacy Franciszek Ossoliński, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (1774.01.07 – death 1784.08.07), previously Titular Bishop of Dardanus (1765.04.22 – 1774.01.07), first as
Coadjutor Bishop
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of Bacău ( Moldavia) (1765.04.22 – 1773.12.20), then as Coadjutor Bishop of Kijów–Czernihów (1773.12.20 – succession 1774.01.07)
** Auxiliary Bishop: Franciszek Remigiusz Zambrzycki (1781.12.10 – death 1826), Titular Bishop of Dardanus (1781.12.10 – 1826)
* Kacper Kazimierz Cieciszowski (1784.08.07 – 1798.11.17), succeeding as former Titular Bishop of Theveste (1775.05.29 – 1784.08.07) and Coadjutor Bishop of Kijów–Czernihów (1775.05.29 – 1784.08.07); later Bishop of Lutsk and Zytomierz ( Russian Partition) (1798.11.17 – 1828.06.23), Metropolitan Archbishop of Mohilev ( Russian Partition) (1828.06.23 – 1831.04.28)
*'' long vacancy, yet :''
** Auxiliary Bishop: Cyryl Lubowidzki (1884.03.24 – 1897.08.02), Titular Bishop of Dulma (1884.03.24 – 1897.08.02); later Bishop of Lutsk and Zytomierz (Ukraine) (1897.08.02 – death 1898.06.09) and Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilsky (Ukraine) (1897.08.02 – 1898.06.09)
**'' Apostolic Administrator Father Teofil Skalski (1926–1932), no other prelature''
;''Suffragan Bishops of Kyïv–Zhytomyr''
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Jan Purwinski
Bishop Jan Purwinski or Yan Purvinskyi ( uk, Ян Пурвінський; pl, Jan Purwiński; lv, Jānis Purvinskis; 19 November 1934 – 6 April 2021) was a Latvian-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Diocesan Bishop of Kyi ...
(16 January 1991 – retired 15 June 2011), previously last Bishop of mother see Žytomyr (Ukraine) (1991.01.16 – 1998.11.25)
** Auxiliary Bishop:
Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk
Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. ( uk, Станіслав Широкорадюк, ''pol. Stanisław Szyrokoradiuk''; born 23 June 1956) is a Ukrainian prelate of the Catholic Church who became Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol since February 2020 after ...
Slobozia-Rașcov
Slobozia-Rașcov ( uk, Слобода-Рашків, ''Sloboda-Rashkiv''; russian: Слобода-Рашков, ''Sloboda-Rashkov'') is a village in the Camenca District of Transnistria, Moldova.Moldava) (15 June 2011 – 27 May 2016)
*'' Apostolic Administrator
Vitaliy Skomarovskyi
Bishop Vitaliy Skomarovskyi ( uk, Віталій Скомаровський; ''pol. Witalij Skomarowski''; born 30 December 1963 in Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the diocesan bishop of Lutsk si ...
(2016.05.31 – ...), while Bishop of Luck (Ukraine) (2014.04.12 – ...); formerly Titular Bishop of Bencenna (2003.04.07 – 2014.04.12) as Auxiliary Bishop of Kyïv–Žytomyr (Ukraine) (2003.04.07 – 2014.04.12).''
* Bishop
Vitaliy Kryvytskyi
Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi or Vitaliy Krivitskiy, S.D.B. ( uk, Віталій Кривицький; born 19 August 1972 in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate serving as the diocesan bishop of Kyiv–Zhytomyr since 30 April ...
List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine
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* one Latin ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropolitan archbishop of Lviv, with 6 suffragan dioceses each headed by a bishop
* a more extensive hierarchy of the Eastern Catholic consisting of
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Roman Catholicism in Ukraine
The Catholic Church in Ukraine ( la, Ecclesia Catholica in Ucraina; uk, Католицька церква в Україні) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
The majority of Catholic ...