Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Russia
See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of current ecclesial jurisdictions: Russia - European area and Russia - Asian area.
This is merely a first draft. For practical reasons, also several areas no longer part of Russia, but previously part of the Soviet Union or pre-revolution Russia, is sometimes included in this draft. The period before 1772 is not yet well consolidated. Also, the chronology of the Eastern-Rite jurisdictions is very incomplete. Claes.Tande@katolsk.no |
- 1321
- Kiev / Kijów (detached from ....) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1321
- Zytomir (detached from ....) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1378-1386
- Kamieniec (detached from ....) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1636
- Smolensk (detached from ....) - (Poland) Russia
- 1772?
- Livland / Livonia (suppressed) - (Latvia) Russia
- 1772
- White Russia / Mohilev (erected by the Russian tsarina, later sanctioned by the Holy See, erected from territories of .... ??) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1783
- Smolensk (suppressed, incorporated in Mohilev) - Russia
- 1783
- Mohilev (AD) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1792
- Lutsk / Luck (suppressed by the Russians) - (Polish Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
- Kamieniec [Lat.] (revived, detached from ....) - (Polish Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
- Kiev / Kijow (suppressed, incorporated in Zhytomir) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
- Lutsk / Luck (reerected) - (Polish Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
- Lutsk and Zytomir (united) - (Polish Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
- Minsk (detached from Mohilev) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1798
- Minsk [Ruth.-Byz.] (detached from Mohilev) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1798
- Mohilev (Metr., previously AD) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1798
- Samogitia (revival of the ancient diocese of Livonia, detached from ....) - (Polish Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
- Vilna (detached from ....) - (Polish Russia ??) Lithuania
- 1848
- Cherson (detached from Mohilev) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1850
- Artvin [Arm.] - (Turkey, Russia from 1877) Turkey
- 1852
- Tiraspol (new name, previously Cherson) - Russia
- 1855-1875?
- Minsk [Ruth.-Byz.] (suppressed by the Tsar, abandoned) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1866
- Lutsk, Zytomir and Kamieniec (union as Kamieniec was suppressed by Russia, administered by Lutsk / Luck) - (Russian Poland) Ukraine
- 1866
- Minsk (suppressed by the Tsar, canonically not abolished, de facto joined to Mogilev) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1866
- Podlasie (suppressed by the Tsar, canonically not abolished, de facto joined to Lublin) - (Russian Poland) Poland
- 1917
- Russia [Russ.-Byz.] (ApEx, detached from the care of Mohilev) - Russia
- 1918
- Kamieniec [Lat.] (revived, detached from Lutsk, Zytomir and Kamieniec) - (Poland, Russia) Ukraine
- 1918
- Lutsk and Zytomir (new name) - (Poland, Russia) Ukraine
- 1921
- Sibiria (AV, detached from Mohilev) - Russia
- 1923
- Vladivostok (D, detached from Sibiria AV) - Russia
- 1925
- Lutsk / Luck [Lat.] (detached from Luck and Zytomir) - Poland (Belarus)
- 1925
- Pinsk [Lat.] (detached from ...) - Poland (Belarus) Belarus
- 1925
- Zytomir (new name, previously Luck and Zytomir) - Poland (Belarus)
1926 - erection of Apostolic Administrations without the formal abolition of the dioceses they supplant:
- Within Mohilev:
- 1926
- Mohilev (AA) - (Soviet Union) Belarus
- 1926
- Moskva (AA) - (Soviet Union) Russia
- 1926
- Leningrad (AA) - (Soviet Union) Russia
- 1926
- Kharkov (AA) - (Soviet Union) Ukraine
- 1926
- Kazan, Samara and Simbirsk (AA, the Samara area however really within Tiraspol diocese) - (Soviet Union) Russia
- Within Tiraspol (Armenians: connected to Artvin)::
- 1926
- Odessa (AA, for the southern part of Diocese of Tiraspol) - (Soviet Union) Ukraine
- 1926
- Caucasus (AA) - (Soviet Union) Russia
- 1926
- Tiflis and Georgia (AA) - (Soviet Union) Georgia
- 1926
- Volga (AA) - (Soviet Union) Russia
- 1926 (1921)
- AA for the Armenians in all of Russia [Arm.] see: Tbilisi in Georgia - (Soviet Union) Georgia, Tbilisi, etc.
- Within VA Sibiria:
- 1926
- Western Sibiria (AA, failed immediately) - (Soviet Union) Russia
- 1932
- Karafuto (Miss., detached from Sapporo) - (Japan) Russia
- 1938
- Karafuto (AP) - (Japan) Russia
1991 - last year the Apostolic Administrations of 1926 are mentioned in the Annuario Pontificio
- 1991
- Grodno [Lat.] (detached from Vilnius) - Belarus
- 1991
- Minsk-Mohilev [Lat.] (Metr., union of Mohilev [Metr.], and of Minsk [Dioc.]) - Belarus
1991 - erection of Apostolic Administrations without the formal abolition of Tiraspol or Vladivostok, although Mohilev reduced to Belarussian territory):
- 1991
- Eastern Europe [Arm.] (ExAp, revival of AA for the Armenians in all of Russia) - Armenia, etc.
- 1991
- European Russia (AA, detached from Mohilev, and from Tiraspol) - Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
- 1991
- Kazakhstan (AA, covering the Kasakh part of the 1921 AV Sibiria) - Kazakhstan
- 1991
- Sibiria (AA, covering the Russian part of the 1921 AV Sibiria, and de facto the defunct D Vladivostok, and AP Karafuto) - Russia
- 1993
- Caucasus [Lat.] (AA, detached from European Russia) - Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
- 1997
- Kyrgyzstan (Miss., covering the Kyrgyz part of the 1921 AV Sibiria, since 1991 administered by AA Kazakhstan) - Kyrgyzstan
- 1997
- Tajikistan (Miss., covering the Tajik part of the 1921 AV Sibiria, since 1991 administered by AA Kazakhstan) - Tajikistan
- 1997
- Turkmenistan (Miss., covering the Turkmen part of the 1921 AV Sibiria, since 1991 administered by AA Kazakhstan) - Turkmenistan
- 1997
- Uzbekistan (Miss., covering the Uzbek part of the 1921 AV Sibiria, since 1991 administered by AA Kazakhstan) - Uzbekistan
- 1999
- Vitebsk (detached from Minsk-Mohilev) - Belarus
- 1999
- Almaty (AA, detached from Kazakhstan) - Kazakhstan
- 1999
- Astana (AA, detached from Kazakhstan) - Kazakhstan
- 1999
- Atyrau (AA, detached from Kazakhstan) - Kazakhstan
- 1999
- Karaganda (D, and new name, previously Kazakhstan) - Kazakhstan
- 1999
- Northern European Russia [Lat.] (AA, new name, previously European Russia) - Russia
- 1999
- Southern European Russia [Lat.] (AA, detached from European Russia) - Russia
- 1999
- Eastern Sibiria [Lat.] (AA, detached from Sibiria) - Russia
- 1999
- Western Sibiria [Lat.] (AA, new name, previously Sibiria) - Russia
- 2000
- Baku (Miss., detached from Caucasus) - Azerbaijan
- 2002
- Mother of God in Moscow [Lat.] (Metr., and new name, previously Northern European Russia, AA) - Russia
- 2002
- Saint Clement in Saratov [Lat.] (D, and new name, previously Southern European Russia AA) - Russia
- 2002
- Saint Joseph in Irkutsk [Lat.] (D, and new name, previously Eastern Sibiria AA) - Russia
- 2002
- Transfiguration in Novosibirsk [Lat.] (D, and new name, previously Western Sibiria AA) - Russia
- 2002
- Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (AP, new name, previously Karafuto) - Russia