Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana


The Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Kazakhstan.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, in the Kazakh national capital Nur-Sultan. The founding and only Apostolic administrator Tomasz Peta was appointed the first Archbishop of Mary Most Holy in Astana by John Paul II on May 17, 1999.

History

erected it as the Apostolic Administration of Astana on July 7, 1999, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan, and visited it in September 2001.
The same pope promoted it to the Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana on May 17, 2003.

Province

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own archdiocese and the following suffragan jurisdictions :
;Apostolic Administrator of Astana
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Astana