Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk

The Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk is a Latin Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on the Russian (ex-Japanese) Far Eastern island Sakhalin.

It is exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Church of St. James, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

History

• Established on 1932.07.18 as Mission sui juris of Karafuto (豊原市 (日本語) ) on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Sapporo (札幌))
• Promoted on 1938.05.21 as Apostolic Prefecture of Karafuto / 豊原市 (日本語)
• Renamed on 2002.04.10 as Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk
• Most of the time under 'apostolic administration', for lack of an incumbent prefect, from Sapporro or Irkutsk.

Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Apostolic Prefects of Karafuto

• Apostolic Administrator Wenceslaus Kinold (ヴェンチェスラオ・キノルド), Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1934 – 1938); while Titular Bishop of Panemotichus (1929.03.18 – 1952.05.22) & last Apostolic Vicar of Sapporo 札幌 (Japan) (1929.03.18 – 1941)
• Felice Herrmann, O.F.M. (1938.05.31 – death 1941)
• Apostolic Administrator Toda Lorenzo Tatewaki (1941 – 1944)
• Agostino Isamu Seno (1944 – 1953)
• Apostolic Administrator Benedict Takahiko Tomizawa (ベネディクト冨澤孝彦) (1953.01.30 – 1987.10.03), while first Bishop of Sapporo 札幌 (Japan) (1952.12.11 – death 1987.10.03)
• Apostolic Administrator Peter Toshio Jinushi (ペトロ地主敏夫) (1987.10.03 – 2000), while Bishop of Sapporo 札幌 (Japan) (1952.12.11 – death 1987.10.03) (札幌) (Japan) (1987.10.03 – 2009.11.17)
• Apostolic Administrator Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (2000 – 2003.04.17), while Apostolic Administrator of Eastern Siberia (Russia) (1999.05.18 – 2002.02.11), then Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia) (2002.02.11 – 2003.04.17)

Apostolic Prefects of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk

• Apostolic Administrator Cyryl Klimowicz (2003.04.17 – ...), while Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia) (2003.04.17 – ...)

Source and External links

• GCatholic with incumbent biography links