Roman Catholicism in Russia

The Roman Catholic Church in Russia is part of the Roman Catholic Church world.

For the Roman Catholic Church a million of the roughly 142 million Russians confess. Chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Russia since 2011, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Moscow, Paolo Pezzi.

After anti- Catholic sentiment in the Russian population of the millennium, the beginning had the Russian Federation and the Holy See received full diplomatic relations in December 2009. Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Antonio Mennini since 2010.

Dioceses

  • Mother of God Archdiocese in Moscow
  • Diocese of St. Clement in Saratov
  • Diocese of St. Joseph of Irkutsk
  • Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk
  • Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk ( unoccupied )
  • Apostolic Exarchate Russia ( Byzantine rite, unoccupied )
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