Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mohilev

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mohilev (or

Russian empire
.

History

It was erected as Diocese of Mohilev in 1772 by the Russian empress Catherine the Great, in a unilateral action independent of Rome. Its territory was split off from the Dioceses of Inflanty and Smolensk. Its initial see was the imperial capital city Saint Petersburg.

In 1782 Catherine elevated the diocese to non-Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev, and in 1783 these actions were recognised by Pope Pius VI in the bull Onerosa pastoralis officii.[1]

On 9 August 1798, it lost territory to establish the

Diocese of Minsk (in Belarus); the same year it was raised to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev. The archdiocese remained the Latin Metropolitan see for Russia throughout imperial times and the Soviet
period, although for much of the latter period it was the subject of repression and had no incumbent archbishop.

In 1818 it gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Smolensk.

It repeatedly lost territory, to establish successively the

Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia
on 1 December 1921.

It was suppressed on 13 April 1991.

Apostolic Administration of European Russia, and subsequently to what are now the Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow in the north and the Diocese of Saint Clement at Saratov
in the south.

Episcopal ordinaries

All Latin, Roman Rite.

Suffragan Bishops of Mohilev
Metropolitan Archbishops of Mohilev

See also

  • Roman Catholicism in Russia

References

  1. ^  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Mohileff". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Sources and external links


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