The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tiraspol was a
Latin Rite
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Roman Catholic diocese on Czarist/Soviet-controlled territory in and around what is now the republic of
Moldova
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.
History
It was established on 3 July 1848 as Diocese of Cherson, on Czarist territory split off from the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Mohilev, but was already renamed Tiraspol in 1952.
It lost territory in 1921 to the Romanian
Diocese of Iaşi, and again on 28 October 1993, to establish the
Apostolic Administration of Moldova (now the diocese of Chisinau, covering the post-soviet republic of that name).
On 11 February 2002, it was suppressed, its territory being merged into the Russian
Diocese of Saint Clement at Saratov.
Incumbent bishops
''(incomplete?; all
Roman Rite
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)
* Ferdinand Helanus Kahn,
Dominican Order
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(O.P.) (1850.05.20 – death 1864.10)
**
Auxiliary Bishop Wincenty Lipski (1856.09.18 – 1875.12.13)
* Franz Xaver von Zottman (1872.02.23 – 1889.12)
* Anton Johann Zerr (1889.12.30 – 1902.06.06), previously
Titular Bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Diocletianopolis &
Auxiliary Bishop of Tiraspol (1883.03.15 – 1889.12.30); later Titular Bishop of
Salona
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Salona was founded in the 3rd century BC and was mostly destroyed in t ...
(1925.11.23 – 1932.12.15)
* Eduard Baron von der Ropp (1902.06.09 – 1903.11.09); later Bishop of
Vilnius
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(Lithuania) (1903.11.09 – 1917.07.25), then staying
Apostolic Administrator
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of Vilnius a while (1917.07.25 – 1918.10.23) when promoted Metropolitan Archbishop of
Mohilev
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(Belarus) (1917.07.25 – 1939.07.25)
* Josef Alois Kessler (1904.04.01 – 1930.01.23), later
Titular Archbishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Bosporus
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(1930.01.23 – 1933.12.09).
References
External links
GigaCatholic with incumbent biography links
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Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Europe