Year | From | To | ||
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1933 | Diocese of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil (Chapecó)
Diocese of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil (Palmas) | Territory Lost | Territorial Prelature of Palmas, Brazil (Cleveland) | Erected |
1933 | Diocese of Hradec Králové, Czechia (Bystré) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Litoměřice, Czechia | Territory Added |
1935 | Mission "Sui Iuris" of Yihsien [Yixian], China | Elevated | Prefecture Apostolic of Yixian [Yihsien], China | Elevated |
1937 | Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey, USA (Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, USA | Erected |
1937 | Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky, USA (Ballard, Carliste, Hickman, Fulton, McCracken, Graves, Livingston, Marshall, Calloway, Trigg, Lyon, Crittenden, Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Webster, Union, Henderson, Daviess, Eandock, McLean, Ohio, Muhlenberg, Butler, Todd, Logan, Breckinridge, ...) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky, USA | Erected |
1937 | Diocese of Newark, New Jersey, USA (Morris, Sussex, and Passaic Counties.) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, USA | Erected |
1939 | Vicariate Apostolic of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria (Cilicia (Adana, Mersina, and Tarsus)) | Territory Lost | Vicariate Apostolic of Constantinople, Turkey | Territory Added |
1948 | Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia, Indonesia (Bantang along with Soekaboemi and Tjandoer) | Territory Lost | Prefecture Apostolic of Sukabumi, Indonesia | Erected |
1948 | Prefecture Apostolic of Oudtshoorn, South Africa | Elevated | Vicariate Apostolic of Oudtshoorn, South Africa | Elevated |
1948 | Prefecture Apostolic of Tali [Dali], China | Elevated | Diocese of Dali [Tali], China | Elevated |
1948 | Prefecture Apostolic of Lydenburg, South Africa | Elevated | Vicariate Apostolic of Lydenburg, South Africa | Elevated |
1958 | St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions | Decretum Laudis | ||
1976 | Diocese of Vijayawada, India (West Godavari and part of East Godavari) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Eluru, India | Erected |
1976 | Diocese of Mombasa, Kenya (Tana River and Lamu)
Diocese of Meru, Kenya (North Eastern Province) | Territory Lost | Prefecture Apostolic of Garissa, Kenya | Erected |
1976 | Prefecture Apostolic of Ngong, Kenya | Elevated | Diocese of Ngong, Kenya | Elevated |
1976 | Prefecture Apostolic of Solwezi, Zambia | Elevated | Diocese of Solwezi, Zambia | Elevated |
1985 | Vicariate Apostolic of Florencia, Colombia (Florencia, Montañita, Paujil, Belén, Doncello, and Puerto Rico along with Morelia, San José del Fragua, Gurillo, Puerto Milán, Valparaíso, and Albania also with Solita, Maguaré, Puerto Manrique, Santuario, Norcasia Pará, and La Unión Peneya) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Florencia, Colombia | Erected |
1985 | Vicariate Apostolic of Florencia, Colombia | Name Changed | Vicariate Apostolic of San Vicente-Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia | Name Changed |
1989 | Archdiocese of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines (Saints Philip and James, Saint Joseph, Saint James the Apostle, Saint Peter the Baptist, the Most Holy Trinity, Saint John the Baptist, Sipocot; Saint John the Baptist, San Fernando; Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Rose of Lima, Saint Bernardine of ...) | Territory Lost | Territorial Prelature of Libmanan, Philippines | Erected |
1995 | Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba (Granma) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba | Erected |
2003 | Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Ilhas de Barlavento: S. Antão, S. Vicente, Santa Luzia, S. Nicolau, Boavista, and Sal) | Territory Lost | Diocese of Mindelo, Cape Verde | Erected |
2009 | Nunciature to Russian Federation | Established | ||
2016 | Delegation to Mauritania | Elevated | Nunciature to Mauritania | Elevated |
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