Joseph Werth

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joseph Werth
Occupation	Catholic Priest
Date Of Birth	Oct 4, 1952(1952-10-04)
Age	72
Birthplace	Karaganda
Country	Kazakhstan
Birth City	Karaganda Region
Horoscope	Libra

Joseph Werth Biography

Joseph Werth is one of the most popular and richest Catholic Priest who was born on October 4, 1952 in Karaganda, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. The Paternal grandfather of the Bishop was Joseph Werth, who was born in 1871 in Schoenchen 1 in the Russian Empire and deported as an kulak to Kazakhstan around 1929 (with his children and wife). He passed away in the year 1951. The Bishop’s maternal mother was Paulina Demund (b. 1881, Schoenchen – d. 1933). His maternal grandfather, the Bishop’s father was Dominic Hoerner (born near Odessa, Ukraine), who was deported in 1931 to Kazakhstan together with his family. Joseph Paulina and Paulina Werth (and their son Johannes) were part of a train of 30000 ethnic Germans who were gathered during the collection process and thrown into an area in the middle of Kazakhstan steppes at the end of the cold winter 1929.

Joseph Werth began studies for the priesthood under cover in Lithuania under the guidance by a leader from the underworld Jesuits and also admitted him to the Lithuanian Province of the Society of Jesus. Then he finished study at the Seminary of Kaunas. In 1984, Father Werth was the very first Roman Catholic priest ordained since the 1930s in the Asian part of the former Soviet Union.

Named as the Latin-rite Apostolic Administrator of Siberia – a see that encompassed 4.2 million square miles (10.3 per cent of all the land on earth) and extends through nine of the world’s twenty four time zones – by Pope John Paul II on April 13, 1991, Werth initially had only two Ukrainian-born priests to help him minister to an estimated 500,000 Catholics. He has since assembled over 100 priests, nuns and lay missionaries from 18 different countries, mostly from Poland, Germany, and Slovakia, but also Nicaragua, Lebanon, India, Argentina, South Korea, and other countries. At least fourteen are from the United States.

The Apostolic Administration of Siberia was divided in 1999 into the Apostolic Administrations of Eastern and of Western Siberia, and the Apostolic Administration of Western Siberia was elevated in 2002 to the rank of a diocese, the Diocese of Transfiguration in Novosibirsk. The center of his diocese is at Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia, where the cathedral stands. He has sent church workers to the largest cities of Siberia, as well as many towns with sizeable Catholic populations.

He worked as a pastoralist in Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan from 1984 until 1988. The pastor was reported to be very successful in his ministry at Aktyubinsk that communists exiled him from the city in the year 1988.

Joseph Werth Net Worth

Joseph Werth is one of the richest Catholic Priest from Kazakhstan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph Werth 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The ones who survived survived by digging holes into the earth. The next load came in 12,000 people had perished. This is the current city of Karaganda in which on the 4th of October, 1952 Msgr. Werth was born. He was the eleventh of 11 kids that were born to Johannes Werth (born October 1 1923, in Schoenchen, Russian Empire – died on November 18th 1995 in Ilbenstadt close to Frankfurt, Germany) and Maria Hoerner Werth (born December 23rd, 1931, in the vicinity of Odessa, Ukraine).

Joseph Werth SJ(Russian: Iosif Iogannovich Vert Born on 4 October 1952, in Karaganda) is the Bishop of Transfiguration in Novosibirsk (Russia).

In 1988 he moved to Marx in Russia’s Saratov oblast, where two of his own sisters (both Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament) had organized about thirty Catholic congregations among the thousands of ethnic Germans who, following the death of Stalin, had returned to the area of the former Volga German Republic. He served there until 1991.

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Joseph Ranked on the list of most popular Catholic Priest. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kazakhstan. Joseph Werth celebrates birthday on October 4 of every year.