• Source: Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan

The Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan is a Roman Catholic (Latin Church) Apostolic Administration (pre-diocesan jurisdiction; originally an Independent Mission) for the Catholics of Kyrgyzstan (West Turkistan, Central Asia).
It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See (not part of any ecclesiastical province) and entitled to a titular bishop, but has no (pro-)cathedral see yet.




History


On 22 December 1997, the Holy See established the Mission sui iuris of Kyrgyzstan on territory split off from the then Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan (shortly after promoted to Diocese of Karaganda, after missiones sui iuris were also split off for Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, all in 1997).
On 18 March 2006, the independent mission was promoted as Apostolic Administration.




Ordinaries


Ecclesiastical superior of the Mission sui iuris
Father Aleksandr Kan, S.J. (1997.12.22 – 2006.03.18)
Apostolic Administrators
Nikolaus Messmer, S.J., titular bishop of Carmeiano (2006.03.18 – 2016.07.18)
Janez Mihelčič, S.J. (2016.08.01 – 2017.08.29)
Anthony James Corcoran, S.J. (since 2017.08.29)




References






External links


Catholic Church of Kyrgyzstan
GigaCatholic

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• Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan
• Apostolic administration
• Catholic Church in Kyrgyzstan
• Christianity in Kyrgyzstan
• Bishkek
• Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan
• Nikolaus Messmer
• List of Catholic dioceses in Central Asia
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda
• List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)