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Suffragan diocese Telšiai–Klaipėda, Lithuania

Diocese of Telšiai–Klaipėda

Telsen(sis)

The Diocese of Telšiai-Klaipėda is a Latin Church diocese in western Lithuania (Samogitia), erected on 4 April 1926, with the Klaipėda prelature merged in 1991. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaunas and led by Bishop Algirdas Jurevičius.

On the map

Esri
Telšiai–Klaipėda, Lithuania, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1926
Catholics
564,000
Priests
146
Territory
13,373 km²

Parishes and churches

151 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Algirdas Jurevičius
Born
24 March 1972
Birthplace
Vievis

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua, Telšiai stands in Telšiai–Klaipėda, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Church of Mary, Queen of Peace, Klaipėda.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

One of two suffragan Latin dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Kaunas in Lithuania, this Roman Catholic see bears the name Telšiai (Latin: Telsen(sis)).