Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Bulgaria
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- 1601
- Sardica / Sofia (restored) - (Ottoman Empire) Bulgaria
- 1642
- Sardica / Sofia (AD) - (Ottoman Empire) Bulgaria
- 1648?
- Nicopoli (detached from ....) - (Ottoman Empire) Bulgaria
- 1758
- Sardica / Sofia (vacant, but territory ruled by Apostolic Vicars) - (Ottoman Empire) Bulgaria
- 1867
- Sofia and Plovdiv (AV, for the territory of AD Sardica, which was de iure still a residential see until 1892) - (Ottoman Empire) Bulgaria
- 1892
- Sardica / Sofia (now a mere titular AD) - (Ottoman Empire) Bulgaria
- 1926
- Sofia [Bulg.-Byz.] (ApEx, erected as the Bulgarian Byzantine Church was reorganized, previously probably mainly part of AV Hadrianopolis [Bulg.-Byz.]) - Bulgaria
- 1979
- Sofia and Plovdiv - Bulgaria
