Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Telšiai, Diocese of

TELSIAI, DIOCESI DI

By Enrico Josi

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TELŠIAI, Diocese of. — City and diocese in the Republic of Lithuania.

It has an area of 15,000 sq. km., with a population of 401,306 inhabitants, of whom 385,872 are Catholics, and it has 135 parishes (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 419). No further statistical data are known, since the entire hierarchy is at present suppressed.

The diocese was erected by Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Lituanorum gente of 4 April 1926, by dismemberment from the archdiocese of Kaunas, of which it is a suffragan. The Cathedral is dedicated to St. Anthony.

Bibliography

BIBL.: AAS, 18 (1926), pp. 121-22.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 1880.

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Josi, Enrico. “Telsiai, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1880. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/telsiai-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Telsiai, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1880. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/telsiai-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Telsiai, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {1880},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/telsiai-diocesi-di}
}

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