Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus
The Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus (
It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, and to its
History
The Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus was erected on 30 December 1993, during the pontificate of
On 11 October 2000, it lost jurisdiction over
It enjoyed papal visits by Pope John Paul II (July 1999, November 1999 and September 2001) and Pope Francis (June, September and October 2016).
Cathedral see
The
Territory
The Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus pastorally serves Catholics of the Roman Rite of the whole of Armenia and Georgia (including Adjara), and the partially recognized states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Catholics of Armenian rite of the
Statistics
As of 2014, it pastorally served 50,000 Catholics in 11 parishes with 23 priests (15 diocesan, 8 religious), 41 lay religious (13 brothers, 28 sisters) and 4 seminarians.
Episcopal ordinaries
- Titular Bishop of Musti(1999.11.09 – ...), born 1954.07.06 in Italy, ordained Priest 1979.05.12, consecrated Bishop 2000.01.06
References
- ^ [ The decree Quo aptius of 30 December 1993, published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS), vol. LXXXVI [ archive ] (1994), No. 4 (April 11, 1994), p. 376 (accessed June 9, 2013)]