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Diocese Events

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YearFromTo
1412Archdiocese of Halicz (Galyc), Ukraine Name ChangedArchdiocese of Lviv, Ukraine Name Changed
1513Diocese of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién, Panama Erected
1840Vicariate Apostolic of Se-Ciuen (Setchoan, Szechwan, Sichuan), China Territory LostVicariate Apostolic of Yünnan, China Erected
1840Vicariate Apostolic of Liaotung, China Territory LostVicariate Apostolic of Kansu [Gansu], China
Vicariate Apostolic of Mongolia, China 		Erected
1840Vicariate Apostolic of Liaotung, China Name ChangedVicariate Apostolic of Liaotung and Manchuria, China Name Changed
1860Vicariate Apostolic of Two Guineas and Senegambia {Guinea Superiore e Inferiore e di Sierra Leone}, Gabon Territory LostVicariate Apostolic of Dahomey, Nigeria Erected
1874Diocese of Galveston, Texas, USA Territory LostVicariate Apostolic of Brownsville, Texas, USA (From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande River)
Diocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA (From the Colorado River to the Nunes River) 		Erected
1874Archdiocese of Québec, Canada
Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
Diocese of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada 		Territory LostDiocese of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Erected
1874Archdiocese of Candia {Crete}, Greece ElevatedDiocese of Crete {Candia}, Greece Elevated
1882Vicariate Apostolic of Honan {Ho-Nan}, China SplitVicariate Apostolic of Northern Honan {Ho-Nan Settentrionale}, China
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Honan {Ho-Nan Meridionale}, China 		Split
1885Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Kiangsi {Kiam-Si Settentrionale}, China Territory LostVicariate Apostolic of Eastern Kiangsi {Kiam-Si Orientale}, China Erected
1913Diocese of Perth, Australia ElevatedArchdiocese of Perth, Australia Elevated
1971Diocese of Mbujimayi, Congo (Dem. Rep.) (Southern part of Muene-Ditu) Territory LostDiocese of Luiza, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Territory Added
2003Eparchy of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia Territory LostApostolic Exarchate of Serbia e Montenegro (Križevci), Serbia Erected
2006Diocese of Myitkyina, Myanmar (Banmaw, Mansi, Momauk, and Shwegu) Territory LostDiocese of Banmaw, Myanmar Erected
2025Eparchy of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India ElevatedArcheparchy of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India Elevated
2025Eparchy of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India ElevatedArcheparchy of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India Elevated
2025Eparchy of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India ElevatedArcheparchy of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India Elevated
2025Eparchy of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar), India ElevatedArcheparchy of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar), India Elevated
2025Eparchy of Hosur (Syro-Malabar), India (from Ernakulam-Angamaly to Trichur) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Bijnor (Syro-Malabar), India (from Agra) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabar), India (from Agra) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Chanda (Syro-Malabar), India (from Nagpur) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Rajkot (Syro-Malabar), India (from Gandhinagar) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Adilabad (Syro-Malabar), India (from Hyderabad) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Jagdalpur (Syro-Malabar), India (from Raipur) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Sagar (Syro-Malabar), India (from Bhopal) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Satna (Syro-Malabar), India (from Bhopal) Metropolitan Changed
2025Eparchy of Adilabad (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Nizamabad, Jagityal, Peddapalli, Kamareddy, RajannaSircilla, Karimnagar, Jaishankar Bhupalpally, Mulugu, Warangal Urban, Warangal Rural, Mahabubabad, Kothagudem, and Khammam) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Bhadravathi (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Kamataka-Haveri, Davangere, Chitradurga, Uttara Kannada, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Raichur, Bijapur, Koppal, Bellary, Gadag, Dharwar, Bidar, Gulbarga, Yadgir, and Vijayanagara) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Bijnor (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Uttar Pradesh: Bijnor (in full), Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit, Meerut, Hapur, Muzaffamagar, Shamli, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Jyotiba Phule Nagar (Amroha), and Baghpat and Uttarakhand: Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat, Nainital, Pithor) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Chanda (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Maharashtra: Nagpur, Gondia, Bhandara, Amravati, Hingoli, Washim, and Yavatmal) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Uttar Pradesh: Allahabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Amethi, Faizabad, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Mirzapur, Pratapgarh, Raebareli, Sonbhadra, Sultanpur, Lucknow, Unnao, Barabanki, Gonda, Bahraich, Sitapur, Hardoi, Balrampur, Shravasti, LakhimpurKheri, Varanasi, ...) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Jagdalpur (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Chhattisgarh: Raipur, Bilaspur, Mahasamund, Durg, Dhamtari, Korba, Janjgir, Kabirdham, Bemetara, Balod, Baloda Bazar, Gariyaband, Mungeli, Rajnandgaon, Surguja, Surajpur, Balrampur, Koriya, Jashpur, Raigarh, Gaurella-Pendra-Marwahi, ...) Territory Added
2025Archeparchy of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Maharashtra: Aurangabad, Jalna, Parbhani, Beed (Bhir), Nanded, Latur, Osmanabad, Buldhana, and Akola, along with the entire State of Goa (South Goa and North Goa)) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Rajkot (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Gujarat: Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Patan, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, and Aravalli, along with the Union Territory of Diu Island) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Sagar (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Hoshangabad, Betul, Chhindwara, Seoni, Balaghat, Bhind, Datia, Gwalior, Morena, Sheopur, and Shivpuri; and Uttar Pradesh: Lalitpur) Territory Added
2025Eparchy of Satna (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Madhya Pradesh: Jabalpur, Mandla, Shahdol, Dindori, Umaria, Katni, Anuppur, Damoh, and Narsinghpur; Uttar Pradesh: Jhansi, Jalaun, Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, and Mahoba) Territory Added
2025Archeparchy of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar), India (Added Madhya Pradesh: Indore, Dewas, Dhar, Harda, Sehore, Jhabua, Alirajpur, Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Khandwa (East Nimar), Burhanpur, Barwani, and Khargone (West Nimar)) Territory Added

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