Roman Catholic Diocese of Smolensk
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Smolensk was a Latin Catholic diocese in a large part of the Czarist Russian empire from 1636 till 1818.History
On 1 September 1636, the Roman Rite bishopric was established on Russian imperial territory, till then virgin to the Catholic church. The see rather often served as a stepping stone to be transferred to other bishoprics, notably in Lithuania.
On 15 April 1783, it lost much of its territory to establish the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev.
In 1818, it was suppressed and its territory merged into its Metropolitan and only daughter, the above Mohilev, which would merged into the Diocese of Minsk and promoted to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev at the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, so as to cover independent Belarus.Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Smolensk
- Petras Parčevskis , later Bishop of Žemaitija
- Franciszek Dołmat Isajkowski
- Hieronim Władysław Sanguszko, Jesuits ; previously Titular Bishop of Modon as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius
- Jurgis Bialozoras , next Bishop of Vilnius
- Kazimieras Pacas , next Bishop of Žemaitija
- Gothard Jan Tyzenhaus, previously Titular Bishop of Modon as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius
- Aleksandras Kotovičius , next Bishop of Vilnius
- Kazimieras Bžostovskis , next Bishop of Vilnius
- Eustachy Stanisław Kazimierz Kotowicz
- Jonas Mikalojus Zgierskis ; previously Titular Bishop of Martiria as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius ; later Bishop of Žemaitija
- Aleksandras Mikalojus Gorainis ; previously Titular Bishop of Tiberias as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius ; later Bishop of Žemaitija
- Ludwik Karol Ogiński
- Karolis Petras Panceržinskis ; previously Titular Bishop of Hierapolis as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius , succeeded as Bishop of Vilnius
- Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski, previously Titular Bishop of Achantus as Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius
- Jerzy Mikołaj Hylzen, died 1775
- Gabriel Wodzyński, succeeded as previous Coadjutor Bishop of Smoleńsk and Titular Bishop of Theveste
- Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz, S.J., succeeding as previous Coadjutor Bishop of Smoleńsk and Titular Bishop of Emmaüs ; later Bishop of Luck
- Tymoteusz Gorzeński, later Bishop of Poznań , Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno , Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań
