Joseph Werth
Joseph Werth | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Bishop of Transfiguration at Novosibirsk | |||||||||||||||||||
| Church | Catholic Church | ||||||||||||||||||
| See | Latin Diocese of Transfiguration at Novosibirsk | ||||||||||||||||||
| In office | February 11, 2002–present | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Ordination | May 28, 1983 (deacon) May 27, 1984 (priest) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Consecration | June 16, 1991 by Francesco Colasuonno, Tadevush Kandrusievich, and Juozas Tunaitis | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | October 4, 1952 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Joseph Werth SJ (Russian: Иосиф Иоганнович Верт; born October 4, 1952) is a Russian-German Catholic prelate who has been the Bishop of Transfiguration in Novosibirsk since 2002. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1991 and was appointed by Pope John Paul II as apostolic administrator of Siberia.