Kazakh Greek Catholic Church

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Kazakh Greek Catholic Church is the Roman Catholic Church in full communion located Uniate Eastern Church in Kazakhstan .

origin

The emergence of the Uniate Catholic Church in Kazakhstan is based on the persecution of Christians in the former Soviet Union caused by Stalinism . The majority of today's Kazakh Greek Catholic Christians are predominantly of Ukrainian origin and were part of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church under canon law . From 1939 onwards, thousands of Ukrainians, mainly from Catholic areas in western Ukraine , were deported to Kazakhstan , and from 1946 onwards the church hierarchy was almost destroyed either by means of a state-ordered systematic targeted killing or arrests and transfers to the Gulag .

The survival of the Greek Catholic Christians in Kazakhstan was more or less ensured in the 1950s by the underground activity of Greek Catholic priests . Her pastoral activity was mainly limited to the Kazakh city of Karagandy , which had the largest Greek-Catholic, Ukrainian-influenced parish. The pastoral direction of the Greek Catholic Church in Kazakhstan was the responsibility of the Greek Catholic Ukrainian Bishop Oleksandr Khyra . The first official celebration of a parish mass in the Byzantine Rite was held in 1979 in the Roman Catholic parish of Karaganda.

present

Since the 1990s, church life has continued to be dominated by Greek Catholic priests, who mainly come from Ukraine. First, by Pope John Paul II. Proclaimed, Apostolic Visitator for the Greek-Catholics in Kazakhstan and Central Asia was established in 1996 from the Congregation of the Basilian forth coming Bishop Wassylij Medwit . In November 2002 Wassyl Howera was his successor. With the establishment of the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia on June 1, 2019, pastoral care in Kazakhstan and Central Asia received a new jurisdictive structure. The previous visitor was also appointed Apostolic Administrator .

Parishes exist in only Sultan , Pavlodar , Karaganda , Satbayev and Shiderti River ( Pavlodar region ).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Church history on the website of "www.risu.org.ua", accessed on August 15, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.risu.org.ua
  2. [1] (PDF; 179 kB), Faith Church and Politics in Eastern Europe, OSTEUROPA 6/2009, pp. 7–27, God and the World Church and Religion in Eastern Europe, by Thomas Bremer and Jennifer Wasmuth, “uni- muenster.de. "accessed on August 15, 2009
  3. erezione dell'Amministrazione Apostolica per i fedeli cattolici di rito bizantino in Kazakhstan e nell'Asia Centrale con sede a Karaganda e nomina dell'Amministratore Apostolico. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 1, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 (Italian).
  4. Греко-католические приходы