Suffragan diocese Telšiai–Klaipėda, Lithuania
Diocese of Telšiai–Klaipėda
Telsen(sis)
Latin Church
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
Every see on one map: browse the dioceses. Churches with recorded hours: find Mass times.
- 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.
- Šv. Antano PaduviečioUkrinaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalo AndriejausTūbausiaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalo AndriejausEndriejavasView parish
- Šv. apaštalo AndriejausLaukžemėView parish
- Šv. apaštalo BaltramiejausNerimdaičiaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalo evangelisto MatoVeiviržėnaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalo evangelisto MatoGintališkėView parish
- Šv. apaštalo JokūboŠvėkšnaView parish
- Šv. apaštalo PauliausSpraudisView parish
- Šv. apaštalų Petro ir PauliausŽygaičiaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalų Petro ir PauliausDarbėnaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalų Petro ir PauliausDegaičiaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalų Petro ir PauliausPlateliaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalų Petro ir PauliausStalgėnaiView parish
- Šv. apaštalų Simono ir Judo TadoBarstyčiaiView parish
- Šv. arkangelo MykoloŽemaičių NaumiestisView parish
- Šv. arkangelo MykoloGargždaiView parish
- Šv. arkangelo MykoloGaurėView parish
- Šv. arkangelo MykoloJanapolėView parish
- Šv. arkangelo MykoloMosėdisView parish
- Šv. arkangelo MykoloRietavasView parish
- Šv. BarborosTeneniaiView parish
- Šv. Brunono KverfurtiečioVėžaičiaiView parish
- Šv. Brunono KverfurtiečioKlaipėdaView parish
- Šv. evangelisto MorkausŠateikiaiView parish
- Šv. IzidoriausRenavasView parish
- Šv. JoakimoPajūraliasView parish
- Šv. JoakimoLauko SodaView parish
- Šv. Jono KrikštytojoVainutasView parish
- Šv. Jono KrikštytojoAdakavasView parish
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)).