| 1204 |
Constantinople (Latin Patriarchate from now, de facto established by the Pope through Venice) - (Latin Empire of Constantinople) Turkey
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| 1742 |
Constantinople (AV, supplanting the Latin Patriarchal Vicars / suffragan Bishops) - (Ottoman Empire) Turkey
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| 1762 |
Aleppo (AV, detached from Constantinople AV) - (Ottoman Empire) Syria, Lebanon, etc.
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| 1818 |
Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus (AV, new name, previously Aleppo AV; see in Beirut) - (Ottoman Empire) Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, Arabian Peninsula
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| 1838 |
Egypt and Arabia (AV, detached from detached from the AV of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus) - Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, Arabian Peninsula
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| 1839 | Abyssinia [Lat.] (AP, detached from Vicariate Apostolic of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia, Eritrea
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| 1846 | Galla [Lat.] (AV, detached from AP Abyssinia) - Ethiopia
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(1851 - Arabia transferred from AV Egypt and Arabia, to AV Galla)
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| 1859 | Aden (AP, detached from AV Galla) - Arabian Peninsula
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| 1875 | Aden (abolished, reattached to Galla) - (Abyssinia) Ethiopia
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| 1888 | Aden (AV, and reerected, re-detached from AV Galla) - Arabian Peninsula
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| 1889 | Arabia (AV, new name, previously Aden) - Arabian Peninsula
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| 1953 | Kuwait (AP, detached from AV Arabia) "Prefecture Apostolic of Kuwait" - Kuwait
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| 1954 | Kuwait (AV) "Vicariate Apostolic of Kuwait" - Kuwait
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| 2011 | Northern Arabia (AV, new name, previously Kuwait)
"Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia" - Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
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ABBREVIATIONS:
AP : Apostolic Prefecture
AV : Apostolic Vicariate
Lat : Latin Jurisdiction
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Rev. Fr. Claes Tande & team
for granting us the permission to publish the chronology information on our site.
Source of Information:
http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/kronologi/kuwait.htm
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