Roman Catholic Church in Azerbaijan

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The Roman Catholic Church in Azerbaijan is a very young mission church .

It grew from 150 to 200 believers between 2000 and 2002 and was entrusted to the Mission sui juris and the Salesians on October 11, 2000 , who work there with two priests and a lay brother . The whole country (the land area is 86,500 km²) forms a single mission parish, which has its seat in Baku .

Azerbaijan and the Holy See maintained diplomatic relations . The seat of the nuncio , who is also responsible for Armenia and Georgia , is in Tbilisi .

In the 14th century, missionaries brought the Roman Catholic faith to Azerbaijan. At the beginning of the 20th century there was a community in Baku that consisted of Poles, Russians and Germans. The only priest was killed in the early 1930s, a year later the only church was destroyed. In 1997 a Slovak priest came to Baku to plant a church. In 2007 a Roman Catholic church was opened. John Paul II visited Azerbaijan in 2002.

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