Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Ethiopia
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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
- Apostolic Vicariate of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus [Lat.] (AV, reestablished with new name, previously Aleppo) - Syria, Egypt, Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus
Failed mission:
- 1555
- Ethiopia (Patr.) - Ethiopia
- 1839
- Abyssinia (AP, detached from the AV of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus [Lat] - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
- 1846
- Galla / Africa among the Galla People (AV, detached from Abyssinia AP) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
- 1847
- Abyssinia (AV) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
- 1913
- Southern Kaffa (AP, detached from Galla AV) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
- 1913
- Kaffa (AP, new name, previously Southern Kaffa, AP) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
- 1937
- Abyssinia (suppressed, territory divided between five new jurisdictions) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
- 1937
- Addis Abeba [Lat.] (AV, established from Abyssinia) - Ethiopia
- 1937
- Dessié (AP, detached from Abyssinia) - Ethiopia
- 1937
- Harar (AV, new name, previously Galla AV) - Ethiopia
- 1937
- Gimma (AV, and new name, previously Kaffa AP) - Ethiopia
- 1937
- Gondar (AP, detached from Abyssinia) - Ethiopia
- 1937
- Neghelli (AP, detached from Galla, and from Kaffa) - Ethiopia
- 1937
- Tigrai (AP, detached from Abyssinia) - Ethiopia
- 1940
- Endeber (AP, detached from Gimma AV) - Ethiopia
- 1940
- Hosanna (AP, detached from Neghelli, and from Gimma) - Ethiopia
- 1951
- Addis Abeba [Geez-Alex.] (ApEx, previously a Latin Rite jurisdiction: AP Addis Abeba, enlarged with the with territory of the now abolished AP Dessié, AP Endeber, and AP Gondar, granted jurisdiction also over Latin Rite Catholics) - Ethiopia
- 1951
- Dessié (AP, abolished, incorporated in Addis Abeba (Ap.Ex.) [Geez-Alex.] ) - Ethiopia
- 1951
- Endeber (AP, abolished, incorporated in Addis Abeba (Ap.Ex.) [Geez-Alex.] ) - Ethiopia
- 1951
- Gondar (AP, abolished, incorporated in Addis Abeba (Ap.Ex.) [Geez-Alex.] ) - Ethiopia
- 1961
- Addis Abeba [Geez-Alex.] (Metr.) - Ethiopia
- 1961
- Adigrat [Geez-Alex.] (previously Tigrai AP, granted jurisdiction also over Latin Rite Catholics) - Ethiopia
- 1969
- Awasa (AP, new name, previously Neghelli) - Ethiopia
- 1977
- Soddo-Hosanna (AP, new name, previously Hosanna AP) - Ethiopia
- 1979
- Awasa (AV) - Ethiopia
- 1980
- Meki (AP, detached from Harar) - Ethiopia
- 1982
- Nekemte (AV, new name, previously Gimma AV) - Ethiopia
- 1982
- Soddo-Hosanna (AV) - Ethiopia
- 1992
- Meki (AV) - Ethiopia
- 1994
- Jimma-Bonga (AP, detached from Nekemte) - Ethiopia
- 2000
- Gambella (AP, detached from Jimma-Bonga) - Ethiopia
- 2003
- Emdeber [Geez-Alex.] (detached from Addis Abeba [Geez-Alex.], Metr.) - Ethiopia
- 2009
- Gambella (AV) - Ethiopia
- 2009
- Jimma-Bonga (AV) - Ethiopia
- 2015
- Addis Abeba [Ethiopian Geez-Alex.] looses jurisdiction over its suffragans un Eritrea [Asmara, Barentu, Keren, Segheneity] upon the establishment of the Eritrean Geez-Alexandrinian Autonomous Catholic Church there) - Ethiopia
- 2015
- Bahir Dar - Dessie [Ethiopian Geez-Alex.] (detached from Addis Abeba [Ethiopian Geez-Alex.], Metr.) - Ethiopia