Christianity in Kyrgyzstan

By the 9th century an archdiocese of the Church of the East cared for the Christians of Kyrgyzstan and adjacent areas in eastern Turkestan.

By the 15th century, however, there were no longer ecclesiastical structures of any church caring for what is today Kyrgyzstan and Islam gained the ascendancy amongst the Kyrgyz people.

A small minority of ethnic Germans are also Christian, mostly Lutheran and Anabaptist, with Baptists, Pentecostals, evangelicals and Adventists also active in the country.

[9] The modern history of Orthodoxy in Kyrgyzstan dates back to the country's incorporation into the Russian Empire in the late 19th century.

In 1871 the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church established a diocese - the Eparchy of Tashkent and Turkestan - for its new communities in Central Asia, with the new parishes in Kyrgyzstan coming under its authority.

As part of the easing of the persecutions during World War II many churches were reopened, with thirty-two active in Kyrgyzstan by 1946.

Sui iuris means that it is an autonomous unit – an independent juristic person, based on its own discipline, heritage, or culture – but it is in full communion with the Pope in Rome.

In the capital, Bishkek, there is a church (among the associated societies belong e.g. Belovodskoe, Chaldybar, Tuz, Nurmanbet, Ivanovka, Iskra, Niznevostochnoe, Kamyshanovka, Oktjabrskoe), and the worships in Talas take place in a bought house, there was also a newly founded parish on the south of Kyrgyzstan (Djalalabad and Osh) too, and another parish is in Karakol.