Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XII, 1954 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Vladivostok, Diocese of

VLADIVOSTOK, DIOCESI DI

By Giuseppe Maria Schweigl

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VLADIVOSTOK, DIOCESE OF. - Dependent on the Pontifical Commission for Russia.

Together with Siberia it was detached from the diocese of Mohilev on 1 December 1921 and comprises the territory of Primorskaja and Amurskaja Oblast and Sakhalin Island. It was erected as a diocese on 2 February 1923 and in 1925 it had 6 priests, 6 churches and 200,000 faithful. After the death of Bishop Sliwowski (1933), a confessor of the faith, the diocese has remained orphaned and devastated.

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BIBL.: AAS, 17 (1925), pp. 443-44; Annuario Pont. 1953, p. 450.

Giuseppe M. Schweigl

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), col. 1575.

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Schweigl, Giuseppe Maria. “Vladivostok, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 1575. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/vladivostok-diocesi-di.

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Schweigl, Giuseppe Maria. “Vladivostok, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 1575. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/vladivostok-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Schweigl, Giuseppe Maria},
  title     = {Vladivostok, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XII},
  pages     = {1575},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1954},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/vladivostok-diocesi-di}
}

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