Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana
The Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana () is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Kazakhstan. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, in the Kazakh national capital Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana). The founding and only Apostolic administrator Tomasz Peta was appointed the first Archbishop of Mary Most Holy in Astana by John Paul II on May 17, 1999. History. Pope John Paul II erected it as the Apostolic Administration of Astana on July 7, 1999, on territory split  off from the then Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan (which lost more territories and became the diocese of Karaganda and soon after, unusually, daughter diocese Astana's suffragan), and visited it in September 2001. The same pope promoted it to the Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana on May 17, 2003. Province. Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own archdiocese and the following suffragan jurisdictions :