Roman Catholic Diocese of Nicopolis

Located in Bulgaria immediate diocese of Nicopolis (Latin: Dioecesis Nicopolitanus ) of the Roman Catholic church was built in 1789 and has an area of ​​43,241 km ². The bishop's seat is located in Russian.

In the 18 parishes of the diocese 30,000 Catholics, representing about 1 % of the population living there live. Are cared for pastorally by these two diocesan and religious priests seven. At the same time, there are 23 religious sisters. In 1968 there were 113 nuns, but went through the number 1987 with eleven a low point and slowly increases again.

List of bishops

  • Filip Stanislavov (1648-1663)
  • Francisk Sojmirovič (1663-1673)
  • Filip Stanislavov (1673-1674)
  • Anton Stefanov (1677-1692)
  • Vacant See (1692-1720)
  • Marko Andrassy (1720-1723)
  • Baltazar Lieski ( 1724 -? )
  • Nicholas Stanislavich (1728-1739)
  • Antonio Benini (1745-1750)
  • Nicola pugliesi (1751-1767)
  • Sebastiano Zanella (1768-1769)
  • Pavel Duvanlija (1774-1804)
  • Francesco Maria Ferreri CP (1805-1814)
  • Fortunato Maria Ercolani CP (1815-1822) ( as Bishop of Civita Castellana, places e Gallese appointed )
  • Giuseppe Molajoni (1825-1847)
  • Angelo Parsi (1848-1863)
  • Antonio Giuseppe Pluym (1863-1870)
  • Ignatius Paoli CP (1870-1883)
  • Ippolito Agosto CP (1883-1893)
  • Henri Doulcet CP (1895-1913) ( resignation )
  • Leonardo Baumbach CP (1913-1915)
  • Damian John Theelen CP (1915-1946)
  • Seliger Vincent Eugenio Bossilkoff CP (26 July 1947-11. November 1952 ) ( executed on March 15, 1998 beatified by Pope John Paul II )
  • Vasco Séirécov (22 July 1975-4. January 1977)
  • Samuel Serafimov Djoundrine AA (14 December 1978-28. June 1994) ( resignation )
  • Petko Hristov, OFM Conv ( since 18 October 1994)
Ecclesiastical province Vicar general Friar Assumptionists Petko Jordanov Christov
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