page_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Telšiai
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Telšiai / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Stamps of Lithuania, 2010
context_page_description: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Telšiai is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Kaunas, one of two in Lithuania.
context_section_description: The diocese was established on 4 April 1926 on territory split off from the Diocese of Samogitia. On 28 May 1997, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Šiauliai.
  On 24 December 1991, the Territorial Prelature of Klaipėda (Memel), which had been seceded from the Diocese of Ermland on 4 April 1926, and was repeatedly held in personal union by the Bishops already, was merged into the Telšiai Diocese.
caption: St Anthonys Cathedral, Telsiai
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