An apostolic vicariate is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church under a titular bishop centered in missionary regions and countries where dioceses or parishes have not yet been established. The status of apostolic vicariate is often a promotion for a former apostolic prefecture, while either may have started out as a mission sui iuris. It is essentially provisional, though it may last for a century or more. The hope is that the region will generate sufficient numbers of Catholics for the Church to create a diocese one day.
Lousada is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,387, in an area of 96.08 km².
The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia is an apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church with territorial jurisdiction for Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The vicar apostolic of the vicariate is Bishop Aldo Berardi OSsT. It was first established in 1953 and took its current name in 2011.
The Ethiopian Catholic Archeparchy of Addis Abeba, officially the Metropolitan sui iuris Archeparchy of Addis Abeba is the metropolitan see of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, a sui iuris metropolitan Eastern Catholic Church.
The Diocese of Wau is a Latin Church is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in South Sudan. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba, and depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Djibouti is the Latin sole diocese in the country of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kangding is a Latin Catholic diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Chongqing in western China, but still dependent on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Nekemte is a Roman Catholic apostolic vicariate located in Nekemte, Ethiopia.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Harar is a Roman Catholic apostolic vicariate located in the city of Harar in Ethiopia.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Soddo is a Roman Catholic apostolic vicariate located in the city of Sodo in Ethiopia.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo is an apostolic vicariate and is immediately subject to the Holy See and its missionary Dicastery for the Eastern Churches. The vicariate has jurisdiction over Catholics of the Latin Rite throughout Syria.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Asmara was a Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction in Eritrea. Centered in Asmara it was at first the Apostolic Prefecture of Eritrea and then the Apostolic Vicariate of Eritrea.
The Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk is a Latin Church missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on the Russian (ex-Japanese) Far Eastern island Sakhalin.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Heliopolis (of Egypt) (originally of the Nile Delta) was a Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Latin Church in northern Egypt.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Port-Said was a Latin Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction in eastern Egypt.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Hosanna is a Catholic pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church in Ethiopia.
Icundiana is a former city and bishopric in Roman North Africa which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Hailemichael Dejene Hidoto Gamo, O.F.M. Cap is an Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Soddo since 15 September 2024.
Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma is a Roman Catholic prelate in Ethiopia, who was appointed as the Apostolic Vicar of the Roman Catholic Vicariate of Awasa (Hawassa), Ethiopia on 15 November 2024, by Pope Francis. Prior to his appointment as Apostolic Vicar, Monsignor Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma served as a priest of the Apostolic Vicariate of Meki, Ethiopia.
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