• Religion - Roman Catholic Confession

    LELCHYTSY PARISH

    In the Lelechitsy volost (district), there were 19 churches, three synagogues, and a church (likely meaning a Catholic church), which had 53 clergy. From detailed records of Roman Catholic parishes in the Mozyr district in 1867, it follows that a significant part of the population of the Buinavichy, Lelechitsy, and Tonezh volosts were also Catholic believers. Thus, in the Mozyr deanery of the Petrykau parish church (within the Orthodox parishes of the Buinavichy Mother of God, Astrazhany Intercession, Simanichy in the name of Paraskeva, and Lelechitsy Trinity churches), as well as in the Pinsk deanery of the David-Haradok church (within…