Territorial Prelature of Klaipėda, Lithuania

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Klaipėda / Klaipeden(sis) (Latin)

United to: Telšiai

1926.04.04: Established as Territorial Prelature of Klaipėda / Klaipeden(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Warmia and became suffragan of Kaunas)
1991.12.24: Suppressed (to Diocese of Telšiai and united to Diocese of Telšiai)

Prelates of Klaipėda (Roman Rite)

Bishop Antanas Vaičius
(Apostolic Administrator 1982.07.05 – 1991.12.24)

Bishop Juozapas Pletkus
(1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Titular Bishop of Tubia (1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Apostolic Administrator of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda (Lithuania) (1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Bishop Petras Mazelis
(1949.12.20 – 1966.05.21)

Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda (Lithuania) (1949.12.20 – 1966.05.21)

Titular Bishop of Celenderis (1955.05.22 – 1964.02.14)

Auxiliary Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1955.05.22 – 1964.02.14)

Apostolic Administrator of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1959.11.10 – 1964.02.14)

Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1964.02.14 – 1966.05.21)

Bishop Maximilian Josef Johannes Kaller
(Apostolic Administrator 1939.06.10 – 1947.07.07)

Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda (Lithuania) (1926.04.05 – 1939)

Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1926.04.05 – 1943.07.08)

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