* 1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown ( now Louisville ) by Pope Pius VII.

On April 8, 1808, the suffragan dioceses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Bardstown ( moved to Louisville in 1841 ) were erected by Pope Pius VII from the territory of the Diocese of Baltimore, which was simultaneously raised to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese.

On April 8, 1808, the suffragan dioceses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Bardstown ( moved in 1841 to Louisville ) were erected by Pope Pius VII from the territory of the Diocese of Baltimore, which was simultaneously raised to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese.

Shortly after his ordination, Kenrick accepted an invitation from Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P. S. S., to join the Diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky, in the United States.

In 1808, the area that is now known as Joliet was governed by the Diocese of Bardstown, present-day Archdiocese of Louisville in Kentucky.

It is the former cathedral mother church of the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown.

The Diocese of Bardstown was erected into an Episcopal See April 8, 1808 by the Holy See.

The primal see or proto-Diocese of the United States, the Diocese of Baltimore, was subdivided into the dioceses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Bardstown ( Baltimore becoming the Archdiocese of Baltimore ).

The diocese began in 1808 when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown was established along with the dioceses of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia out of the territory of the Baltimore Diocese, the first Catholic diocese in the US.

When founded, the Bardstown Diocese included most of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.

The historic Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral, the former cathedral of the Diocese of Bardstown, is now a parish church.

In 1841, the diocese was moved from Bardstown to Louisville, becoming the Diocese of Louisville.

Served the area that would become the Diocese of Bardstown ( and later the Archdiocese of Louisville.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown ( Kentucky ) was established on April 8, 1808, along with the dioceses of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, out of the territory of the Baltimore Diocese, the first Catholic diocese in the US.

When founded, the Bardstown Diocese included most of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.

The historic Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral, the former cathedral of the Diocese of Bardstown, is now a parish church.

The Diocese of Bardstown established its first church, Saint Thomas Parish, within four years of its founding.

In 1841, the diocese was transferred from Bardstown to Louisville and was renamed the Diocese of Louisville.

The Diocese of Bardstown ceased to exist, but a titular see now exists named the Diocese of Bardstown.

* 1329 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII ; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

It established Diocese of Samogitia, with seat in Medininkai and subordinated to Lithuanian dioceses, and appointed Matthias of Trakai as the first bishop.

On 25 December 1958, he became the first pope since 1870 to make pastoral visits in his Diocese of Rome, when he visited children infected with polio at the Bambino Gesù Hospital and then visited Santo Spirito Hospital.

In 1859 the Anglican Diocese of St Helena was set up for St Helena, including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha ( initially also including the Falkland Islands, Rio de Janeiro and other towns along the east coast of South America ), the first Bishop of St Helena arriving on the island that year.

* c. 545 – 546 ( approximate date ) – The Diocese of Bangor is established in the Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd with Deiniol consecrated as first Bishop

The Right Reverend Dr. Charles Inglis, who was the first Church of England Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia, was the third son of The Rev.

An assistant to the Archbishop of Gniezno is mentioned residing in the town in 1123 and the Diocese of Włocławek () in Kuyavia was first mentioned in a bull issued by Pope Eugene III in 1148.

The Roman Catholic parish of Haarlem became a Diocese in 1559 ( Dioecesis Harlemensis ) and the first bishop of Haarlem was Nicolaas van Nieuwland ( born in 1510 ).

When the Saxon Diocese of Sherborne was founded in 705 by King Ine of Wessex, he set Aldhelm as first Bishop of the see of Western Wessex, with his seat at Sherborne.

The town is also home to Bishop Stang High School, named for the first Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, William Stang, and Friends Academy, a private K-8 school affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends.

The property was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing, and became the home of its first Bishop, the Most Reverend Joseph H. Albers as his private residence.

* Timothy J. Corbett, first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Crookston

In the early eighteen hundreds, Jose Jacinto Gallegos and his wife Florentina Dominguez were among the first Spanish settlers in Agua Fria, which contained several natural springs, woodlands and a perpetual flowing river ; and, Jose Jacinto Gallegos and Florentina conceived six children ; Maria Albina, Nestor, Deluvina, Elias and noted santero Celso Gallegos ; and, the parroquia of Santa Fe was administered under the auspices of the Diocese of Durango, Mexico in the 1800s.

It was established in 1848 by the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Louis Amadeus Rappe.

On 13 January 1837, in the aftermath of the cure of Venerable Pauline Jaricot, Pope Gregory XVI authorized liturgical celebration of Philomena on 11 August or, according to another source, originally on 9 September, first in the Diocese of Nola ( to which Mugnano del Cardinale belongs ), and soon in several other dioceses in Italy.

The Diocese of Hålogaland was created in 1804, with the first bishop being Mathias Bonsak Krogh.

His Holiness established the first Diocese in the lands of immigration for the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in 1991, the Diocese of Birmingham ; and appointed the general bishop for the United Kingdom at the time, H. G.

Henry Yates Satterlee, first Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, chose George Frederick Bodley, Britain's leading Anglican church architect, as the head architect.

In 1137, Bishop of Passau Reginmar and Margrave Leopold IV signed the Treaty of Mautern, which referred to Vienna as a Civitas for the first time and transferred the Church of St. Peter to the Diocese of Passau.

In the time of the first Ecumenical Councils, the Patriarch of Antioch held the ecclesiastical authority over the Diocese of the Orient, which was to be extended from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.

* James Albert Duffy ( died 1968 ), first bishop for the Diocese of Grand Island

Similarly, it is known that Selsey was once a port town, with Selsey Abbey and a cathedra recorded until 1075, when the see of the Diocese of Sussex was moved inland to Chichester.

The Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America ( ECUSA ) which extends from Key West on the south, to Jensen Beach on the north and inland to Clewiston on the west.

Its inland boundary bisects the island northwestward, or southeastward, with the other half of the island falling under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Tagbilaran.