- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev
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The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev (or Mahilyow or Mogilev) was a territorial division of the Roman Catholic Church, covering a significant proportion of the territory of the Russian empire.
It was erected as a diocese in 1772 by the empress Catherine the Great, in a unilateral action independent of Rome. Its see city was the imperial capital Saint Petersburg. In 1782 Catherine elevated the diocese to an archdiocese, and in 1783 these actions were recognised by Pope Pius VI in the bull Onerosa pastoralis officii.[1] The archdiocese remained the metropolitan see for Russia throughout imperial times and the Soviet period, although for much of the latter period it was the subject of repression and had no incumbent archbishop.
Mogilev is a city in present-day Belarus, and with the demise of the Soviet Union the Archdiocese was merged with the former suffragan Diocese of Minsk, to create a new Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev in 1991. The territorial boundaries of the new archdiocese were redrawn to include only territory within Belarus. Territories of the former archdiocese falling within present-day Russia were reassigned, first to the Apostolic Administration of European Russia, and subsequently to what are now the Archdiocese of Mother of God at Moscow in the north and the Diocese of Saint Clement at Saratov in the south.
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Archbishops
- 1783–1826: Stanisław Bohusz Siestrzeńcewicz
- 1828–1831: Kasper Cieciszowski
- 1841: Ignacy Pawłowski
- 1849–1851: Kazimierz Dmochowski
- 1851–1855: Ignacy Hołowiński (coadjutor bishop in 1848–1851)
- 1856–1863: Wacław Żyliński
- 1872–1883: Antoni Fijałkowski
- 1883–1889: Aleksander Gintowt-Dziewałtowski (coadjutor in 1882–1883)
- 1891–1899: Szymon Marcin Kozłowski
- 1901–1903: Bolesław Hieronim Kłopotowski
- 1903–1905: Jerzy Szembek
- 1908–1909: Apolinary Wnukowski
- 1910–1914: Wincenty Kluczyński
- 1917–1926: Eduard von der Ropp
- 1926–1981: Boleslas Sloskans (administrator)
See also
References
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Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Mohileff". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
External Links
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