Roman Catholic Diocese of Smolensk

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Diocese of Smolensk Dioecesis Smolenscensis
Coat of arms
Location
Country	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth/Russia
Ecclesiastical province	Gniezno
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1636
Dissolved	1818

The Diocese of Smolensk was a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church. Founded in 1636 and dissolved in 1818, it was initially located within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and later in Czarist Russia.

History

The Latin Church bishopric was established in 1611 by King Sigismund III Vasa.^[1] Its foundation was confirmed by the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1618, however the first bishop Piotr Parczewski was appointed only in 1636. The see rather often served as a stepping stone to be transferred to other bishoprics in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Initially, the territory of the diocese formed part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, however, after the Truce of Andrusovo of 1667 it passed to Russia. Since then, the bishops of Smolensk resided in Warsaw.^[2]

On 15 April 1783, it lost much of its territory due to the establishment of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev.^[2]

In 1818, it was suppressed and its territory merged into its Metropolitan and only daughter, the above Mohilev, which would be merged into the

• Samogitia (Lithuania
  ) (1649.12.09 – death 1658.12.06)
• Franciszek Dołmat Isajkowski (1650.02.14 – death 1654.05)
• Hieronim Władysław Sanguszko,
  Vilnius
  (Lithuania) (1644.12.12 – 1655.05.31)
• Jerzy Białłozor (1658.03.18 – 1661.11.21), next Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1661.11.21 – death 1665.05.17)
• Samogitia
  (Lithuania) (1667.10.03 – death 1695)
• Gothard Jan Tyzenhaus (1668.09.17 – 1669), previously Titular Bishop of
  Vilnius
  (Lithuania) (1661.04.05 – 1668.09.17)
• Aleksander Kotowicz (1673.02.27 – 1685.04.09), next Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1685.04.09 – death 1686.11.30)
• Konstanty Kazimierz Brzostowski (1685.04.30 – 1687.11.24), next Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1687.11.24 – death 1722.10.24)
• Eustachy Stanisław Kazimierz Kotowicz (1688.05.17 – death 1704)
• Jan Mikołaj Zgierski (1706.01.25 – 1710.07.21); previously Titular Bishop of
  Samogitia
  (Lithuania) (1710.07.21 – death 1713.12.06)
• Aleksander Mikołaj Horain (1711.12.23 – 1716.12.07); previously Titular
  Bishop of Tiberias
  (1704.09.15 – 1711.12.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1704.09.15 – 1711.12.23); later Bishop of Samogitia (Lithuania) (1716.12.07 – death 1735.12.07)
• Ludwik Karol Ogiński (1717.11.22 – death 1718)
• Karol Piotr Pancerzyński (1721.09.24 – 1724.09.11); previously Titular Bishop of Hierapolis (1712.10.05 – 1721.09.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1712.10.05 – 1721.09.24), succeeded as Bishop of Vilnius (1724.09.11 – death 1729.02.19)

• Achantus
  (1722.04.20 – 1725.01.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1722.04.20 – 1725.01.29)
• Jerzy Mikołaj Hylzen (1746.02.13 – 1763.07.17), died 1775
• Gabriel Wodzyński (1763.07.17 – death 1788.11.28), succeeded as previous
  Coadjutor Bishop of Smoleńsk (1759.04.04 – 1763.07.17) and Titular Bishop of Theveste
  (1759.04.04 – 1763.07.17)
• Łuck (Poland
  ) (1790.11.29 – death 1796.07.08)
• Poznań
  (Poland) (1821.07.16 – death 1825.12.20)