Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
TIRASPOL, DIOCESE OF – A suffragan of Mohilev, it comprises southern Russia from the Dniester almost to the Ural River.
The diocese was established on 3 July 1848. Its see was originally at Kherson, but in practice the bishop resided at Saratov
TIRASPOL, DIOCESE OF – Part of the old city at the foot of the citadel, whose round tower was destroyed by the Persians in 1795. (from M. N. Kelly, Russia, London 1848, fig. 63)on the Volga and, since 1917, at Odessa. The faithful of the diocese (about 390,000 in 1914, divided into 100 parishes with 179 priests) suffered greatly under the Bolshevik regime, and their numbers declined sharply. In 1926 the diocese was divided into five apostolic administrations, but this new arrangement proved ineffective, as the administrators were either imprisoned or exiled. The diocese is today completely devastated, with no churches and no priests.
BIBL.: J. A. Kessler, Gesch. der Diözese Tyraspol, Dickinson (USA), 1930. Guglielmo de Vries
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“TIRASPOL, DIOCESI DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), p. 107. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/tiraspol-diocesi-di.
