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.
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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.
- Šv. LaurynoKalnalisView parish
- Šv. Marijos MagdalietėsUžlieknėView parish
- Šv. MotiejausKūlupėnaiView parish
- Šv. OnosVaičaičiaiView parish
- Šv. OnosAkmenėView parish
- Šv. OnosBatakiaiView parish
- Šv. OnosKruopiaiView parish
- Šv. OnosLenkimaiView parish
- Šv. OnosPavandenėView parish
- Šv. OnosVilkyškiaiView parish
- Šv. Pranciškaus AsyžiečioŠilalėView parish
- Šv. Pranciškaus AsyžiečioJuodkrantėView parish
- Šv. Pranciškaus AsyžiečioKlaipėdaView parish
- Šv. Pranciškaus AsyžiečioMažeikiaiView parish
- Šv. RokoVarsėdžiaiView parish
- Šv. RokoGardamasMass times recorded
- Šv. RokoRubikaiView parish
- Šv. Vincento FereroDegučiaiView parish
- Šv. vysk. StanislovoDauginiaiView parish
- Šv. vyskupo StanislovoBeržorasView parish
- Šv. vyskupo StanislovoKuliaiView parish
- Šv. vyskupo StanislovoŽarėnaiView parish
- Šv. Šeimos – Jėzaus, Marijos ir JuozapoPlikiaiView parish
- Šventosios Dvasios AtsiuntimoNaujoji AkmenėView parish
- Švč. Jėzaus ŠirdiesMažeikiaiView parish
- Švč. Jėzaus ŠirdiesGadūnavasView parish
- Švč. Mergelės MarijosMitkaičiaiView parish
- Švč. Mergelės MarijosJokūbavasView parish
- Švč. Mergelės Marijos ApsilankymoKlykoliaiView parish
- Švč. Mergelės Marijos ApsilankymoTveraiView 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)).