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Diocese Events

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Year	From		To
1577	Diocese of Silves (Sylves), Portugal	Name Changed	Diocese of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal	Name Changed
1874	Diocese of Melbourne, Australia	Territory Lost	Diocese of Ballarat, Australia	Erected
1874	Diocese of Melbourne, Australia	Territory Lost	Diocese of Sandhurst, Australia	Erected
1929	Prefecture Apostolic of Sapporo, Japan	Elevated	Vicariate Apostolic of Sapporo, Japan	Elevated
1930	Vicariate Apostolic of Mariannhill, South Africa	Territory Lost	Prefecture Apostolic of Umtata, South Africa	Erected
1983			Military Ordinariate of Ecuador, Military	Erected
1987	Diocese of Bacolod, Philippines	Territory Lost	Diocese of Kabankalan, Philippines	Erected
1987	Diocese of Bacolod, Philippines Diocese of Dumaguete, Philippines	Territory Lost	Diocese of San Carlos, Philippines	Erected
1992	Archdiocese of Shillong-Gauhati, India Diocese of Tezpur, India Diocese of Tura, India	Territory Lost	Diocese of Guwahati, India	Erected
1992	Diocese of Butare, Rwanda	Territory Lost	Diocese of Gikongoro, Rwanda	Erected
1992	Archdiocese of Shillong-Gauhati, India	Split	Archdiocese of Shillong, India	Split
2008			Archdiocese of Cambrai, France (no longer a Metropolitan)	Elevated
2008			Diocese of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France (from Cambrai)	Metropolitan Changed
2008	Diocese of Lille, France	Elevated	Archdiocese of Lille, France	Elevated

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