administration Apostolic

A special form of diocesan organization of which eight have been created in Europe since World War I

• Feldkirch, Austria
• Tutz, Germany
• Miskolcz, Hungary
• Tirna va, Czechoslovakia
• Targul-Siret, Rumania
• Temesvar, Rumania
• Subotica, Yugoslavia
• Veliki Bechkerek, Yugoslavia

In most cases, where a new boundary of a country intersected an old diocese, the section in the country remote from the diocesan seat was erected into an administration Apostolic, usually under a titular bishop.

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