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Diocese Events

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Year	From		To
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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