• An apostolic vicariate is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church under a titular bishop centered in missionary regions and countries where...
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    The Apostolic Vicariate of Istanbul (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Istanbulensis) is a Roman Catholic apostolic vicariate based in the city of Istanbul...
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  • archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates...
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    eparchies. Also in Ethiopia are nine Latin jurisdictions (Apostolic Vicariates and Apostolic Prefectures), which, not being of diocesan rank, are not organized...
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    the Apostolic Prefecture of Mountain Province, later elevated to an apostolic vicariate in 1948. It was later renamed as the Apostolic Vicariate of Baguio...
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    Pope Leo XII established the Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands, a part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Oriental Oceania. He tasked the Picpus...
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  • Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia may refer to the following missionary Roman Catholic jurisdictions: Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia (Holland) Apostolic...
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    Church, located in Norway. Before March 1979, it was known as the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Norway. Erik Varden was appointed the bishop in 2019....
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    The Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Arabiæ Meridionalis) (Arabic: النيابة الرسولية من جنوب الجزيرة العربية) is an...
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  • Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Germany (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Germaniae Septentrionalis), known for most of its existence as the Vicariate Apostolic...
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    The Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Anatoliensis, Turkish: Anadolu Havarisel Vekilliği) is a Roman Catholic Latin apostolic...
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    (1549–1582), Priest of the Apostolic Vicariate of England Richard Gwyn – (1537–1584), Married Layperson of the Apostolic Vicariate of England Margaret Clitherow...
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    a publication now in the public domain: Thomas Kennedy (1913). "Vicariate Apostolic of New Pomerania". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia...
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  • sequence of development is: independent mission, apostolic prefecture, apostolic vicariate, apostolic diocese; however steps may be skipped at the papal...
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    Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa Apostolic Vicariate of Requena Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón Apostolic Vicariate of...
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    part of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Nordic Missions and the German Paderborn bishops functioned as administrators of the apostolic vicariate. In 1781...
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    September 1848, the city was the seat of a short-lived Latin Catholic Apostolic Vicariate (pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction) of Kokonur (alias Khouhkou-noor...
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  • The Vicariate Apostolic of the Northern District may refer to: Apostolic Vicariate of the Northern District (England), a precursor name for the Roman Catholic...
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    Cathedral, Bangkok. In 1662, the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam was created on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Cochinchina, based in Vietnam...
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    establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Cheongju and the Apostolic Vicariate of Daijeon, and on 6 June 1961, it lost again to make the Apostolic Vicariate of Incheon...
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    is an apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church with territorial jurisdiction for Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The vicar apostolic of the...
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    cooperation with the Archbishopric of Bremen, which was responsible for Apostolic Vicariate of the Nordic Missions, the Diocese of Skara was established, with...
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    the Apostolic Vicariate of Japan on May 1, 1846, by Pope Gregory XVI, and its name was later changed by Pope Pius IX to the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern...
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    Prefecture of Islands of the Indian Ocean 3 April 1841: Promoted as the Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia, hence entitled to a titular bishop It lost vast territories...
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  • The Apostolic Vicariate of Brunei Darussalam (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Bruneiensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction covering the...
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  • The Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika was a Catholic apostolic vicariate (missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the White Fathers missionary order at...
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    along the Malabar Coast in India. It was originally formed as the Vicariate Apostolic of Malabar in 1657 and became a metropolitan see in 1886. Verapoly...
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    to Apostolic Vicariate of Jesselton, hence entitled to a titular bishop. On 22 March 1962 its name was changed once more to the Apostolic Vicariate of...
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  • The Vicariate Apostolic of the Western District may refer to these Latin Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdictions in the UK: Apostolic Vicariate of the Western...
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    the college from 1887 to 1889. In 1887, Pope Leo XIII erected the Apostolic Vicariate of Utah and Eastern Nevada, taking its territory from the Archdiocese...
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