Roman Catholic Church in Belarus

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Cathedral in Minsk

The Roman Catholic Church in Belarus has 1.4 million Catholic Christians (as of 2004). It is divided into 4 dioceses, one of which is Metroplie .

history

Roman Catholic cemetery near Ashyany in the north of the country

The missionary work of the Slavs in what is now Belarus began in the 9th century by the brothers Cyril and Method , the so-called Slav apostles .

The Roman Catholic Church has always been hated in the Tsarist Empire, as the government feared the Pope would influence the Catholic Kingdom of Poland. Peter I allowed the construction of a Roman Catholic church for the first time in 1705. The Catholics were subject to very strict state controls during the rule of the Tsars. Few Catholics lived in Russia before the Polish partitions. That changed from 1772 when hundreds of thousands of Catholics suddenly came under Russian rule. During the 19th century, Catholicism in Russia was subject to severe persecution, particularly during the reigns of Nicholas I and Alexander II (1825–1881).

On September 21, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz as Archbishop of Minsk-Mahiljou.

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz has been the chairman of the Bishops' Conference since June 2015. He succeeded Aleksander Kaszkiewicz , Bishop of Hrodna, who had been in office since 2006 .

The Apostolic Nuncio has been Archbishop Ante Jozić since May 2020 .

List of dioceses

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal details in: Die Tagespost . June 6, 2015. p. 4