apostolic prefect

In the 19th century the episcopal function of the apostolic prefects was further emphasised by appointing them simultaneously with titular sees.

In 1954 he was appointed apostolic prefect of Spanish Sahara and Ifni.

This position of Apostolic prefect lasted from the 15th century till the 1800s, when the Papal States fell into economic difficulties.

Latin Rite clergy other than bishops, in particular any who are abbots or apostolic prefects, may wear pontifical items.

The office of the apostolic prefect was held in personal union by the cathedral dean of Bautzen Cathedral.

Mgr Artus de Lionne became apostolic prefect of Sichuan in 1696.

Lemmens' coat of arms as Apostolic Prefect consisted of a three-part shield, each with its own meaning.

The Togo mission was particularly fruitful for by 15 years later the Holy See had appointed an Apostolic prefect.

Tarcisio Martina, the regional apostolic prefect, was sentenced to life in prison and died in 1961, while four other "conspirators" were given shorter sentences.

Prefect apostolic - see: Apostolic prefect (above)

Nelissen became the first Apostolic Prefect, when the Apostolic Prefecture of Batavia was created in 1826.

Monsignor Jocelyn Madden, the Salesian Delegate, was the first Apostolic Prefect.

Enrique Figaredo, S.J., Jesuit, apostolic prefect of Battambang.

In 1894 Bludau became apostolic prefect at the bishops seminary and after the death of Andreas Thiel bishop of Ermland.

The Church began to flourish again with twenty new arch-dioceses, seventy-nine dioceses and thirty-eight apostolic prefects, but only until 1949, when the Communist revolution took over the country.

In 1938 he was named a prelate by the Holy See and appointed Apostolic Prefect of the Sind and Baluchistan.

Cornelius Sim (who was the Vicar General of Miri-Brunei, and a Bruneian priest) as its first apostolic prefect.

Salesius Lemmens OFM, Apostolic Prefect of Sind and Baluchistan.

The Catholics of Moldavia were then placed under the spiritual direction of Apostolic prefects, generally chosen from the Conventuals in charge of the mission.

Paul Tep Im Sotha, who had been named first Apostolic Prefect of Battambang in 1968, was killed together with Fr.

Murphy was sent to Hawaii by the apostolic prefect in Chile to evaluate the situation which the Roman Catholic Church had found itself in the Hawaiian Islands.

The first Apostolic Prefect was Angelo Moreschi, S.D.B., who was made apostolic vicar when the jurisdiction was converted to a vicariate.

On March 1, 1963 the prefecture of Oyo was raised to a diocese with the apostolic prefect,Msgr Owen McCoy becoming the first bishop until his retirement in 1971.

A portion of the year 1902 was devoted to an exchange of correspondence with Bishop Guerin, the Apostolic prefect of Sahara, about his fight against slavery in the Hoggar.

The Apostolic Prefect is the Salesian Father Vladimír Fekete, a Slovak like his predecessors Jozef Pravda and Jan Čapla.