:Catholic Church in Turkmenistan

All Catholic infrastructure in the country was destroyed by Soviet revolutionaries in the 1920s. In 1997 a request was made to recognize the local Catholic community, but was refused since the local church was not headed by a Turkmen. In July 2010, the Catholic Mission received official government recognition and plans were started to both ask permission to build a Catholic church, and to reclaim a Catholic Armenian church in Turkmenbasy that still stands in the west of the country, as well as a church building in Sendar.{{cite web|author=Fides Staff |date=2010-07-15 |title=ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Local Catholic Church receives official government recognition |work=Fides |url=http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=27086&lan=eng |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414190630/http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=27086&lan=eng |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-14 |access-date=2013-02-05 }} In the early 2000s, Mass was celebrated at the apostolic nunciature in the capital and at parishioners' homes.{{cite web| author=Fides Staff| date=2006-09-15| title=ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Minute Catholic community in a land of first evangelisation, despite little religious freedom and no place of worship, dreams of building its own church one day soon| work=Fides| url=http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=8058&lan=eng| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414233701/http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=8058&lan=eng| url-status=dead| archive-date=2013-04-14| access-date=2013-02-10}}

In 2020, there were 3 priests in the country, serving 300 Catholics in one parish.[https://www.catholicsandcultures.org/Turkmenistan Catholics and Culture website, retrieved 2023-08-08]

• Religion in Turkmenistan
• Christianity in Turkmenistan
• Chapel of the Transfiguration, Ashgabat
• Mission sui iuris of Turkmenistan

• [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/tm.html Profile of Catholic Church in Turkmenistan]

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