Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Georgia and Armenia
St. Maria's Catholical Cathedral Church in Tbilisi
The Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus (Latin: Administratio Apostolica Caucasi Latinorum) is an apostolic administration (pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Latin Church in the Catholic Church, established in 1993, with headquarters in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
On 11 October 2000, it lost jurisdiction over Azerbaijan, which was transferred to the newly erected then Mission sui iuris of Baku, which soon was promoted to Apostolic prefecture.
It enjoyed papal visits by Pope John Paul II (July 1999, November 1999 and September 2001) and Pope Francis (June, September and October 2016).
The Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus pastorally serves Catholics of the Roman Rite of the whole of Armenia and Georgia (including Adjara), and the partially recognized states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
As of 2014, it pastorally served 50,000 Catholics in 11 parishes with 23 priests (15 diocesan, 8 religious), 41 lay religious (13 brothers, 28 sisters) and 4 seminarians.
^[ The decree Quo aptius of 30 December 1993, published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS), vol. LXXXVI [ archive ] (1994), No. 4 (April 11, 1994), p. 376 (accessed June 9, 2013)]
