Diocese of Telšiai

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.

History

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.

As of 2014, the diocese pastorally served 564,000 Catholics on in 79 parishes and 95 missions with 164 priests, 50 lay religious and 20 seminarians studying at the Telšiai Bishop Vincentas Borisevičius Priest Seminary.

;Suffragan Bishops of Telšiai

Justinas Staugaitis, also Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Klaipėda
*Apostolic Administrator Vincentas Borisevičius, while Titular Bishop of Lysias
Vincentas Borisevičius
*Apostolic Administrator Bishop Petras Maželis while Titular Bishop of Celenderis as Auxiliary Bishop of Telšiai ; previously Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Klaipėda
Petras Maželis, also again Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda
*Apostolic Administrator Bishop Juozapas Pletkus while Titular Bishop of Tubia, also Apostolic Administrator of Klaipėda
*Apostolic Administrator Bishop Antanas Vaičius, Titular Bishop of Sullectum and Apostolic Administrator of Klaipėda
Antanas Vaičius, died 2008
Jonas Algimantas Boruta, SJ, previously Titular Bishop of Vulturara as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Vilnius
Kęstutis Kėvalas, previously Titular Bishop of Abziri as Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas, coadjutor bishop of Telšiai ; later promoted as Archbishop of Kaunas.
Algirdas Jurevičius, previously Titular Bishop of Materiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas