Constantinople (Latin Patriarchate from now, de facto established by the Pope through Venice) – (Latin Empire of Constantinople) Turkey

Constantinople (AV, supplanting the Latin Patriarchal Vicars / suffragan Bishops) – (Ottoman Empire) Turkey

Aleppo (AV, detached from Constantinople AV) – (Ottoman Empire) Syria, Lebanon, etc.

Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus (AV, new name, previously Aleppo AV; see in Beirut) – (Ottoman Empire) Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, Arabian Peninsula

Egypt and Arabia (AV, detached from detached from the AV of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus) – Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, Arabian Peninsula

Abyssinia [Lat.] (AP, detached from Vicariate Apostolic of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus) – (Abyssinia) Ethiopia, Eritrea

Galla [Lat.] (AV, detached from AP Abyssinia) – Ethiopia

Aden (AP, detached from AV Galla) – Arabian Peninsula

Aden (abolished, reattached to Galla) – (Abyssinia) Ethiopia

Aden (AV, and reerected, re-detached from AV Galla) – Arabian Peninsula

Arabia (AV, new name, previously Aden) – Arabian Peninsula

Kuwait (AP, detached from AV Arabia) “Prefecture Apostolic of Kuwait” – Kuwait

Kuwait (AV) “Vicariate Apostolic of Kuwait” – Kuwait

Northern Arabia (AV, new name, previously Kuwait)
“Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia” – Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

ABBREVIATIONS:

AP : Apostolic Prefecture
AV : Apostolic Vicariate
Lat : Latin Jurisdiction

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