Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Eritrea

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1204
Constantinople / Konstantinopolis (Latin Patriarchate from now, de facto established by the Pope through Venice) - (Latin Empire of Constantinople) Turkey
1742
Constantinople / Konstantinopolis (AV, supplanting the Latin Patriarchal vicars / suffragan bishops) - (Ottoman Empire) Turkey
1760
Aleppo [Lat.] (AV, detached from AV Constantinople) - Syria
1817
Vicariate Apostolic of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus [Lat.] (AV, reestablished with new name, previously Aleppo) - Syria, Egypt, Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus
1839
Egypt and Arabia [Lat.] (AV, detached from Vicariate Apostolic of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus) - Egypt, Sudan, part of Abyssinia, Arabian Peninsula
1851
Egypt [Lat.] (AV, new name, previously AV Egypt and Arabia) - Egypt
1894
Erythrea / Eritrea (AP, detached from AV Egypt and AP Delta of the Nile) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
1911
Erythrea / Eritrea (AV) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
1930
Eritrea [Geez-Alex.] (Ordin., for the Geez-Alexandrinian Catholics of the AV Eritrea, which from now becomes an all Latin jurisdiction) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
1951
Asmara [Geez-Alex.] (ApEx, and new name, previously Eritrea (Ordin.) - Ethiopia
1959
Asmara [Latin] (AV, new name, previously Eritrea) - Eritrea
1961
Asmara [Geez-Alex.] (D) - Eritrea
1995
Asmara [Latin] (AV, suppressed, Latin Rite Catholics put under the care of the Geez-Alex. jurisdictions of Asmara, of Barentu, and of Keren) - Eritrea
1995
Barentu [Geez-Alex.] (detached from Asmara [Geez-Alex.]) - Eritrea
1995
Keren [Geez-Alex.] (detached from Asmara [Geez-Alex.]) - Eritrea
2012
Segheneity [Geez-Alex.] (detached from Asmara [Geez-Alex.]) - Eritrea
2015
Asmara (Metr., for the entire and dewly erected Eritrean Geez-Alezandrinioan Autunomous Catholic Church – all three other Eparchies in Eritrea becoming its suffragans. Previouisly, Asmara and these fourt were all part of the Geex-Alexandrian [now: Ethiopian Geez-Alexandrian] Church with its Metropolitan in Addis Abeba) - Eritrea
av Webmaster publisert 08.09.2004, sist endret 22.01.2015 - 11:09