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navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Template:Catholic Church by country"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Template talk:Catholic Church by country"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Catholic Church by country"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Catholic Church in Azerbaijan</b> is part of the worldwide <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, under the spiritual leadership of the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>. There are about 570<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> local Catholics in the country as of 2016. Azerbaijan is covered entirely by a single <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Prefecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Prefecture">Apostolic Prefecture</a> – <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Prefecture_of_Baku" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Prefecture of Baku">Apostolic Prefecture of Baku</a> – since 2011. The community is served by seven <a href="/wiki/Salesians_of_Don_Bosco" title="Salesians of Don Bosco">Salesian</a> priests and two friars. In addition, there is a mission of the <a href="/wiki/Missionaries_of_Charity" title="Missionaries of Charity">Missionaries of Charity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bm_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bm-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Azerbaijan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Christians have been present on the territories covered by present-day Azerbaijan since the first century AD.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starting from 1320, Catholic missionaries such as <a href="/wiki/Jordan_Catala" title="Jordan Catala">Jordanus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Odoric_of_Pordenone" title="Odoric of Pordenone">Odoric of Pordenone</a> have visited what is now Azerbaijan and have established missions mostly in large cities. In the fourteenth century in <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_(city)" title="Nakhchivan (city)">Nakhchivan</a> alone, there were 12 missions led by <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominicans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Friars_Minor_Capuchin" title="Order of Friars Minor Capuchin">Capuchins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Augustinians" title="Augustinians">Augustinians</a>, etc. In 1660 Superior of the Capuchin Mission at <a href="/wiki/Isfahan" title="Isfahan">Isfahan</a>, friar <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_du_Mans" class="extiw" title="fr:Raphaël du Mans">Raphaël du Mans</a> reported Catholic parishes functioning in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shamakhi" title="Shamakhi">Shamakhi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jesuits arrived and set a mission in <a href="/wiki/Ganja,_Azerbaijan" title="Ganja, Azerbaijan">Ganja</a> in the 1680s.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, efforts of Bartholomew, a <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominican</a> missionary from <a href="/wiki/Bologna" title="Bologna">Bologna</a>, resulted in the conversion of 28 settlements in Nakhchivan (with <a href="/wiki/B%C9%99n%C9%99niyar" title="Bənəniyar">Bənəniyar</a> being the largest) into <a href="/wiki/Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholicism">Catholicism</a>. Despite hardships and pressure from the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic Church</a>, Catholicism survived here for over three centuries, after which it went into decline and by the 1800s was no longer practiced.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Russian_and_Soviet_period">Russian and Soviet period</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Azerbaijan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Russian and Soviet period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian</a> rule in the nineteenth century, these lands became a popular destination for members of various Christian denominations. Catholics were represented by ethnic <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Poles</a> who started immigrating to Baku and Shamakhi in the mid-19th century, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian Catholic Church">Georgian Catholics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Catholic_Church" title="Armenian Catholic Church">Armenian Catholics</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Western_Europe" title="Western Europe">Western Europeans</a> who stayed in Baku on a temporary or permanent basis. The Catholic population of Shamakhi just before the <a href="/wiki/1859_Shamakhi_earthquake" title="1859 Shamakhi earthquake">1859 earthquake</a> and the city's loss of provincial capital status numbered around 250 persons.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The village of <a href="/wiki/Siyaqut" title="Siyaqut">Siyaqut</a> in Nakhchivan was founded in the 1850s by <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrian</a> immigrants from <a href="/wiki/Salmas" title="Salmas">Salmas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persia</a> and remained the only <a href="/wiki/Chaldean_Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaldean Christians">Chaldean Christian</a> village in the <a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus" title="South Caucasus">South Caucasus</a>. Beginning in the 1880s, the priest serving in Siyaqut was ordained by the <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a> bishop.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stmarysbaku.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Stmarysbaku.jpg/250px-Stmarysbaku.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Stmarysbaku.jpg/375px-Stmarysbaku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Stmarysbaku.jpg/500px-Stmarysbaku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="745" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Church of Immaculate Conception (left) before 1917</figcaption></figure> <p>In the early twentieth century there was a community in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> made up of Polish, German, and Russian immigrants for whose needs the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Immaculate_Conception,_Baku_(1912)" title="Church of the Immaculate Conception, Baku (1912)">Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary</a> was built in 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two other smaller churches were built throughout the second half of the nineteenth century: in <a href="/wiki/Qusar" class="mw-redirect" title="Qusar">Qusar</a>, where a hussar regiment made up of ethnic Poles had been quartered,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in <a href="/wiki/Zaqatala_(city)" title="Zaqatala (city)">Zagatala</a> where participants of the 1863 <a href="/wiki/January_Uprising" title="January Uprising">January Uprising</a> had been exiled.<sup id="cite_ref-grab_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grab-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1916, the number of Catholic church mass attendees in Baku was over 2,500.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The arrival of <a href="/wiki/Bolshevism" title="Bolshevism">Bolsheviks</a> in 1920 put an end to religious freedoms. In the early 1930s, on the orders of the Stalinist government, the small community's only priest Stefan Demurov was executed.<sup id="cite_ref-history_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1931, the communist authorities demolished the church in Baku.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The church in Qusar fell in disuse after the transfer of the hussar regiment in 1918, as few Poles remained in the town. Its building is currently used as an art gallery.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The church in Zagatala is now private property.<sup id="cite_ref-grab_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grab-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-Soviet_period">Post-Soviet period</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Azerbaijan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-Soviet period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bak%C4%B1da_M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_M%C9%99ry%C9%99m_kils%C9%99sinin_interyeri.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bak%C4%B1da_M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_M%C9%99ry%C9%99m_kils%C9%99sinin_interyeri.JPG/220px-Bak%C4%B1da_M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_M%C9%99ry%C9%99m_kils%C9%99sinin_interyeri.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bak%C4%B1da_M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_M%C9%99ry%C9%99m_kils%C9%99sinin_interyeri.JPG/330px-Bak%C4%B1da_M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_M%C9%99ry%C9%99m_kils%C9%99sinin_interyeri.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bak%C4%B1da_M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_M%C9%99ry%C9%99m_kils%C9%99sinin_interyeri.JPG/440px-Bak%C4%B1da_M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_M%C9%99ry%C9%99m_kils%C9%99sinin_interyeri.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4256" data-file-height="2832" /></a><figcaption>Church of the Immaculate Conception of Baku</figcaption></figure> <p>As Azerbaijan is a <a href="/wiki/Established_church#States_without_any_state_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Established church">secular country</a> the 1996 law stated that foreigners have <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_conscience" title="Freedom of conscience">freedom of conscience</a>, but denied the right to "carry out religious propaganda", i.e., to preach, under the threat of fines or deportation. Rafig Aliyev, head of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations, had declared that this ban for the foreigners to conduct religious work will be amended.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The law of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1992) "On freedom of faith" ensures the right of any human being to determine and express his view on religion and to execute this right. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamps_of_Azerbaijan,_2002-619.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Stamps_of_Azerbaijan%2C_2002-619.jpg/220px-Stamps_of_Azerbaijan%2C_2002-619.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Stamps_of_Azerbaijan%2C_2002-619.jpg/330px-Stamps_of_Azerbaijan%2C_2002-619.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Stamps_of_Azerbaijan%2C_2002-619.jpg 2x" data-file-width="336" data-file-height="223" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> visited Azerbaijan in 2002</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1997, a <a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovak</a> priest came to Baku to restart the Catholic community.<sup id="cite_ref-history_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 October 2000, the mission <a href="/wiki/Sui_iuris" title="Sui iuris">sui iuris</a> of <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> was established covering the whole of the country, with Daniel Pravda as its first superior. Pravda had worked in <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a> for many years when he became head of the mission, and noted that when he was first appointed, the church had no structure, and there were many problems with the government relating to <a href="/wiki/Visa_(document)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visa (document)">visas</a>, but when a new Religious affairs official was appointed, problems abated and preparations for a Papal visit gained traction.<sup id="cite_ref-knock_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knock-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 23, 2002, <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> visited the country, despite his increasingly fragile health.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was initially invited by Azerbaijan's president, <a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev" title="Heydar Aliyev">Heydar Aliyev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-azerb_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azerb-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thanks to his visit, President Aliyev gave the Catholic Church a plot of land to build a church.<sup id="cite_ref-history_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The building was funded by proceeds from Pope John Paul II's book sales and foreign donations.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Delegates from <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> attended the first Congress of Catholic Laity of Eastern Europe in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-congress_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-congress-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, the apostolic <a href="/wiki/Nuncio" title="Nuncio">nuncio</a> to Azerbaijan, visited the country he encountered many elderly believers who had waited almost 70 years to receive the sacrament of <a href="/wiki/Confirmation" title="Confirmation">confirmation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-history_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> St Mary's Catholic Church of Baku, the only Catholic church in the country, was rebuilt, with work nearing its end in March 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-echo_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-echo-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was inaugurated by <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Secretary_of_State" title="Cardinal Secretary of State">Cardinal Secretary of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Tarcisio_Bertone" title="Tarcisio Bertone">Tarcisio Bertone</a> on 7 March 2008, 70 years after it had been shut down by the Soviets.<sup id="cite_ref-1st_Catholic_Church_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1st_Catholic_Church-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mission of Baku became on 4 August 2011 the Apostolic Prefecture of Azerbaijan, with a Catholic population of 520.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Apostolic Prefect is Bishop <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Fekete" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Fekete">Vladimir Fekete</a>, a Slovak like his fellow <a href="/wiki/Salesians_of_Don_Bosco" title="Salesians of Don Bosco">Salesian</a> predecessors Jozef Pravda and Jan Čapla. Only a few of the Catholics are Azeris, and the congregation's working languages are <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On April 29, 2011, an accord was reached between the <a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Vatican</a> and the government of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> concerning the relations of the two states, and the various rights and freedoms of the Catholic Church and its personnel within the country.<sup id="cite_ref-accord_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-accord-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, <a href="/wiki/Behbud_Mustafayev" title="Behbud Mustafayev">Behbud Mustafayev</a> was ordained the first Catholic deacon of Azeri origin by archbishop <a href="/wiki/Paolo_Pezzi" title="Paolo Pezzi">Paolo Pezzi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bm_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bm-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 7 May 2017, he was ordained into priesthood by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2016, Pope Francis visited Azerbaijan on what was the second papal visit in the country's history during which he emphasised Azerbaijan's embrace of religious diversity.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Azerbaijan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Catholic Church by country">Catholic Church by country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_Parish" title="Christ the Redeemer Parish">Christ the Redeemer Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Azerbaijan" title="Christianity in Azerbaijan">Christianity in Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Azerbaijan" title="Religion in Azerbaijan">Religion in Azerbaijan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Azerbaijan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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