The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia ( la, Dioecesis Kharkiviensis-Zaporizhiensis) is a

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of the

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of the

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. Pavlo Honcharuk is the current

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of the diocese. The diocesan seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

, and the co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of the Merciful Father in

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a populat ...

History

The diocese was created in 2002, when territory from the dioceses of the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, and the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr was split off and merged. The result created two dioceses with Catholic of around 5 percent, and one diocese with only 0.4, which is one of the lowest for any diocese.

Geography

The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins.

Ordinaries

*Bishop Stanislaw Padewski, O.F.M.Cap. (4 May 2002 – 19 March 2009) **coadjutor bishop Marian Buczek (16 July 2007 – 19 March 2009) *Bishop Marian Buczek (19 March 2009 – 12 April 2014) ** auxiliary bishop Jan Sobilo (30 October 2010 – present), ''titular bishop of Bulna'' *Bishop Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (12 April 2014 – 2 February 2019) * Apostolic Administrator Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (2 February 2019 – 6 January 2020) *Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk (since 6 January 2020)

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References

GCatholic.org

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