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Bishop Joseph Werth SJ (Russian: Иосиф Иоганнович Верт; born October 4 1952 in Karaganda) is Bishop of Transfiguration in Novosibirsk (Russia).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 500000 Catholics.