TheCatholic Church in Turkmenistan is part of the worldwideCatholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of thePope inRome.
All Catholic infrastructure in the country was destroyed by Soviet revolutionaries in the 1920s.[1] In 1997 a request was made to recognize the local Catholic community, but was refused since the local church was not headed by aTurkmen.[1] 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 inTurkmenbasy that still stands in the west of the country, as well as a church building inSendar.[1] In the early 2000s, Mass was started to be celebrated at theapostolic nunciature in the capital and at parishioners' homes.[2]
In 2026, there were 2 priests in the country, serving 300 Catholics in onechapel.[3]
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