Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Mary Most Holy in Astana, yet remains subject to the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. The city also had the former Cathedral of St. Joseph.History
Established on 1991.04.13 as Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan, on vast territory split off from the Diocese of Vladivostok.
Lost territories repeatedly :
Promoted on 1999.07.07 as Diocese of Karaganda, losing territory to establish Apostolic Administration of Astana, Apostolic Administration of Almaty and Apostolic Administration of Atyrau.Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 8,340 Catholics on 711,208 km² in 19 parishes and 2 missions with 19 priests and 38 lay religious.;Apostolic Administrator of Kazakhstan
;Suffragan Bishops of Karaganda
