The Year of Our Lord 2002

Diocese Events

January to June

Date	From		To
unknown	Nunciature to Yugoslavia	Split	Nunciature to Serbia and Montenegro	Split
9 Jan	Diocese of Samarinda, Indonesia (Bulungan and Berau)	Territory Lost	Diocese of Tanjung Selor, Indonesia	Erected
11 Jan	Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kyiv-Vyshhorod (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Territory Lost	Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k-Kharkiv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Erected
16 Jan	Diocese of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil	Elevated	Archdiocese of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil	Elevated
16 Jan			Diocese of Barra (do Rio Grande), Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Barreiras, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Bonfim, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Irecê, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa), Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan	Diocese of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil	Elevated	Archdiocese of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil	Elevated
16 Jan			Diocese of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Caetité, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Jequié, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
16 Jan			Diocese of Livramento de Nossa Senhora, Bahia, Brazil (from Sao Salvador da Bahia)	Metropolitan Changed
17 Jan	Diocese of Kumasi, Ghana	Elevated	Archdiocese of Kumasi, Ghana	Elevated
17 Jan			Diocese of Goaso, Ghana (from Cape Coast)	Metropolitan Changed
17 Jan			Diocese of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana (from Cape Coast)	Metropolitan Changed
17 Jan			Diocese of Obuasi, Ghana (from Cape Coast)	Metropolitan Changed
17 Jan			Diocese of Sunyani, Ghana (from Cape Coast)	Metropolitan Changed
18 Jan	Diocese of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Territory Lost	Apostolic Administration of São João Maria Vianney, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Personal)	Erected
6 Feb	Territorial Prelature of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines (Babuyan Islands)	Territory Lost	Archdiocese of Tuguegarao, Philippines	Territory Added
6 Feb	Territorial Prelature of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines	Name Changed	Territorial Prelature of Batanes, Philippines	Name Changed
6 Feb			Territorial Prelature of Batanes, Philippines (from Tuguegarao to Nueva Segovia)	Metropolitan Changed
11 Feb	Apostolic Administration of Northern European Russia {Russia Europea Settentrionale}	Elevated	Archdiocese of Madre di Dio a Mosca (Moscow), Russian Federation	Elevated
11 Feb	Apostolic Administration of Southern European Russia {Russia Europea Meridionale} Diocese of Tiraspol, Moldova	Elevated	Diocese of San Clemente a Saratov, Russian Federation	Elevated
11 Feb	Apostolic Administration of Eastern Siberia {Siberia Orientale}, Russian Federation	Elevated	Diocese of San Giuseppe a Irkutsk, Russian Federation	Elevated
11 Feb	Apostolic Administration of Western Siberia {Siberia Occidentale}, Russian Federation	Elevated	Diocese of Trasfigurazione a Novosibirsk, Russian Federation	Elevated
25 Mar	Diocese of Indore, India (Jhabua, Ratlam, Mandsaur, and Neemuch along with Sardarpur Tahshil (in Dhar) and Thandla Tahshil (in Jhabua)) Diocese of Udaipur, India (Thandla, Dungripada, Jhapandara, and Badi Dhamni)	Territory Lost	Diocese of Jhabua, India	Erected
27 Mar	Apostolic Administration of Zakarpattia, Ukraine	Elevated	Diocese of Mukachevo (Munkács), Ukraine	Elevated
Apr			Titular See of Aleria	Established
Apr			Titular See of Mariana in Corsica	Established
Apr			Titular See of Nebbio	Established
Apr			Titular See of Sagone	Established
10 Apr	Prefecture Apostolic of Karafuto, Russian Federation	Name Changed	Prefecture Apostolic of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation	Name Changed
19 Apr	Diocese of Münster, Germany (St. Paul in the part of Hengelage in Quakenbrück)	Territory Lost	Diocese of Osnabrück, Germany	Territory Added
20 Apr			Apostolic Exarchate of Argentina (Melkite Greek)	Erected
4 May	Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine (Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhia) Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine (Kharkiv, Luhansk, Pollava, and Sumy)	Territory Lost	Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine	Erected
4 May	Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine (Kherson, Kyrovohrad, Mykalov, Odessa and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea)	Territory Lost	Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine	Erected
13 May	Vicariate Apostolic of Palawan, Philippines (Northern part)	Territory Lost	Vicariate Apostolic of Taytay, Philippines	Erected
13 May	Vicariate Apostolic of Palawan, Philippines	Name Changed	Vicariate Apostolic of Puerto Princesa, Philippines	Name Changed
16 May			Mission "Sui Iuris" of Afghanistan	Erected
20 May			Nunciature to Timor-Leste	Established
21 May	Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit (Chaldean), USA (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California , Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii)	Territory Lost	Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego (Chaldean), USA	Erected
21 May	Prefecture Apostolic of Kontagora, Nigeria	Elevated	Vicariate Apostolic of Kontagora, Nigeria	Elevated
8 Jun			Rosarian Fathers	Approbation
12 Jun			Clerical Public Association of Missionaries of Jesus	Founded

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