The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana (, ) is a
Latin Church
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archdiocese of the
Catholic Church
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in
Kazakhstan
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.
Its
cathedral
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episcopal see is the
Marian Cathedral of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, in the Kazakh national capital
Astana
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. The founding and only apostolic administrator,
Tomasz Peta, was appointed the first Archbishop of Mary Most Holy in Astana by John Paul II on May 17, 1999.
History
Pope John Paul II
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In his you ...
erected it as the
Apostolic Administration of Astana on July 7, 1999, on territory split off from the then
Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan (which lost more territories and became the diocese of Karaganda and soon after, unusually, daughter diocese Astana's suffragan), and visited it in September 2001.
The same pope promoted it to the Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana on May 17, 2003.
Province
Its
ecclesiastical province
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comprises the metropolitan's own archdiocese and the following
suffragan
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In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...
jurisdictions :
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda (its parent diocese)
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Santissima Trinità in Almaty.
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Apostolic Administration of Atyrau
The Apostolic Administration of Atyrau is a pastoral area ''sui iuris'', not yet fully a diocese, in western Kazakhstan which forms part of the Roman Catholic Church in this country, namely of the metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ma ...
(a pre-diocesan type of jurisdiction which normally remains exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See)
Ordinaries of Astana
(all
Roman Rite
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, so far European Latin missionaries)
;''Apostolic Administrator of Astana''
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Tomasz Peta (7 Jul 1999 – 17 May 2003),
Titular Bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Benda, Albania (15 Feb 2001 – 17 May 2003)
;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Astana''
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Tomasz Peta (17 May 2003 – ... ), also President of Episcopal Conference of Kazakhstan (May 2003 – ... )
See also
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Catholic Church in Kazakhstan
Sources and external links
GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links
Astana
Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. With a population of 1,423,726 within the city limits, it is the second-largest in the country after Almaty, which had been the capital until 1997. The city lies on the banks of the Ishim (river), Ishim ...
Astana
Maria Santissima in Astana
Astana
Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. With a population of 1,423,726 within the city limits, it is the second-largest in the country after Almaty, which had been the capital until 1997. The city lies on the banks of the Ishim (river), Ishim ...
1999 establishments in Kazakhstan
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