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unusual facts about Apostolic Vicariate


Ephrem Giesen

He served as vicor apostolic of North Shandong from 1902 until his death in 1919 and was also made titular Bishop of Paltus in 1902.


François Norbert Blanchet

On December 1 1843, the Vatican under Pope Gregory XVI established the Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory, and named Blanchet its vicar apostolic.

Herman Koeckemann

, (Ostbevern, January 10, 1828 - Honolulu, February 22, 1892), served as the second vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands — now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu — from 1881 to 1892.

Joseph Gotthardt

When the prefecture became the Windhoek Vicariate soon thereafter, he became Vicar and was ordained as Bishop at Hünfeld in Germany in 1924, becoming the leader of the Catholic Church in South-West Africa.

Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Pakistan

On 29 April 2010 Pope Benedict XVI elevated the Apostolic Prefecture of Quetta to the rank of Apostolic vicariate.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

In 1658, the Church would establish an Apostolic Vicariate by Pope Alexander VII, 124 years since the first voyage of Jacques Cartier in 1534.

Victor Gnanapragasam

On 29 April 2010 Pope Benedict XVI elevated the apostolic prefecture of Quetta, to the rank of Apostolic vicariate, with the same name and territorial configuration as before.


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Antonin Guillermain

Bishop John Joseph Hirth took the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Nyanza, the English Mill Hill Missionaries took the eastern part, called the Apostolic Vicariate of Upper Nile, and Antonin Guillermain was assigned the western part, called the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Nyanza.

Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu

On 14 July 1949 it was renamed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kitega, and on 10 November 1959 was elevated to the Archdiocese of Gitega.

Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta

On 29 April 2010 Pope Benedict XVI elevated the apostolic prefecture of Quetta to the rank of apostolic vicariate.

Diocese of Alaska

Roman Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks, known prior to its elevation as the Apostolic Vicariate of Alaska

Herranz

José María Izuzquiza Herranz (1925–2011), Roman Catholic bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén en Peru, Peru

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanking

However, the diocese was demoted to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangnan on January 21, 1856 by Pope Pius IX, and its name was later changed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangsu on August 8, 1921 and to the Vicariate Apostolic of Nanking on May 1, 1922.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

In 1674, with the population of New France growing rapidly and the Seminary of Québec enrolling more students, Pope Clement X elevated the Apostolic Vicariate to a diocese, which would depend directly on the Holy See; this provision would later secure its permanence after New France passed into the hands of The United Kingdom in 1760.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm

The Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden also included Finland between 1783 and 1809 (then passed to Mohilev Archdiocese), the southern areas of Norway between 1834 and 1868 (thereafter Apostolic Prefecture of Norway), whereas Norway north of the polar circle formed part of Sweden vicariate from 1834 to 1855, then becoming the Apostolic Prefecture of the North Pole.