List_of_Catholic_dioceses_in_Lithuania

List of Catholic dioceses in Lithuania

List of Catholic dioceses in Lithuania

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The Catholic Church in Lithuania is currently entirely Latin and composed of

  • two ecclesiastical provinces, with a total of five suffragan dioceses.
  • the exempt military ordinariate.

Episcopal Conference of Lithuania

Exempt jurisdiction sui iuris

Ecclesiastical Province of Kaunas

Ecclesiastical Province of Vilnius

Defunct jurisdictions

There are no titular sees.

All Latin defunct jurisdictions have current successors, unlike the only Eastern Catholic diocesan see(s).

The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Vilnius (Byzantine Rite, since 1809) was suppressed in 1828 and immediately replaced by the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Žyrovyci, only to be suppressed again in 1833, without successor.
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