Other Parishes in the Apostolic Administration

Primorye Krai

	St. John the Evangelist, Bolshoy Kamen (Big Rock): Parish founded May 1992 by Fr. Daniel Maurer. City population 45,000; located 80 miles east of Vladivostok (three-hour train ride). Bolshoy Kamen is planned Soviet-era city where no religion was allowed; never had one parish of any denomination until 1992. In 2001, St. John the Evangelist parish became inactive because most of Catholics had to leave city to find work. The few remaining parishioners are taken to Romanovka for monthly Mass, confession, and catechism.
	Annunciation of the Lord, Aresenev: Parish founded Feb. 21, 1999, by Fr. Myron Effing. Parish now served by Franciscan friars, who also serve Nativity of Our Lord at Ussurisk.
	Nativity of Our Lord, Ussurisk: Parish founded July 15, 2000, by Fr. Myron Effing. Two Franciscan friars from South Korean province began serving parish in November 2001.
	Presentation of Mary, Olga: Yet to be founded.

Irkutsk Oblast

	Immaculate Heart of Mary, Irkutsk: Cathedral parish consecrated on Sept. 8, 2000. Seat of Bishop Cyril Klimovich. Irkutsk is four-hour flight west of Vladivostok.
	St. Stanislaus, Vershina: Small village of 150 families, about 100 miles north of Irkutsk. Serves Khabarovsky Krai, 341,000 square miles.
	Immaculate Conception, Khabarovsk: Parish reregistered Oct. 1, 1994, by Fr. Myron Effing after having been closed in religious persecution of 1930s. City population 700,000; 14-hour train ride from Vladivostok. Before revolution, city had two parishes and Catholic school. One church was destroyed; other was confiscated in 1935 and turned into clinic for infectious and venereal diseases. Immaculate Conception parish had been named Holy Transfiguration but was renamed Immaculate Conception to coincide with its pre-revolutionary name, which had been forgotten. Parish turned over to Maryknoll Missioners in 1998.

Amursky State

Transfiguration of Jesus, Blagoveschensk: Parish refounded in March 1994 by Fr. Myron Effing. City population 200,000; two-hour flight from Vladivostok (but all flights have been cancelled since 1994). Parish serves all of Amur state, an area larger than New Mexico. The parish's pre-revolutionary Gothic-style church is currently occupied by the Russian Orthodox, who will return the building once the new Orthodox cathedral is completed. Parish turned over to the Society of the Divine Word in 1999.

Saints Cyril and Methodius, Nicolavsk-na-Amur: City population 50,000; located near Sakhalin Island (northernmost parish in Russia). Turned over to Maryknoll order in summer 1996.

Magadan Oblast

Nativity of the Lord, Magadan: Founded in 1991 by Archbishop Francis Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska. City population 150,000; city founded in 1939 as administrative and supply base for gulag (government concentration and slave labor camp system). It is first Catholic parish in what was to become diocese of Eastern Siberia. Catholic church building under construction.