Changes in Ecclesiastical Jurisdictionsin Israel | ![]() |
| Date | Change |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Anthedon was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Antipatris was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Ascalon was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Azotus was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Diocletianopolis was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Diocæsarea antea Sepphoris was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Dora was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Eleutheropolis was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Giovanni S. d’Acri (Maronite Rite) was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Hebron was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Hippus was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Ioppe was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Livias was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Maximianopolis was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Nazareth (Maronite Rite) was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Porphyreon was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Sabulon was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Samaria was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Sozusa was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Tiberias was established |
| Unknown | Titular Episcopal See of Tricomia was established |
| 30 | Diocese of Jerusalem was established |
| 100 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cæsarea was established |
| 100 | Diocese of Ptolemais was established |
| 135 | Diocese of Jerusalem was renamed as Diocese of Aelia Capitolina |
| 325 | Diocese of Aelia Capitolina was renamed as Diocese of Jerusalem |
| 451 | Diocese of Jerusalem was promoted as Patriarchal See of Jerusalem |
| 600 | Diocese of Ptolemais was suppressed |
| 1099 | Diocese of Lydda was established |
| 1099 | Patriarchal See of Jerusalem was restored |
| 1100 | Diocese of San Giovanni d’Acri was established |
| 1200 | Diocese of Lydda was suppressed |
| 1295 | Patriarchal See of Jerusalem was demoted as Titular Patriarchal See of Jerusalem |
| 1300 | Diocese of San Giovanni d’Acri was demoted as Titular Episcopal See of Akka |
| 1300 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cæsarea was suppressed |
| 1430 | Titular Episcopal See of Nicopoli di Palestina was established |
| 1650 | Titular Episcopal See of Nicopoli di Palestina was suppressed |
| 1750 | Archdiocese of Jerusalem (Syriac Rite) was established |
| 1750 | Titular Episcopal See of Sabulon was suppressed |
| 1759 | Diocese of Akka (Greek-Melkite Rite) was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tyr and without ecclesiastical province) |
| 1800 | Archdiocese of Jerusalem (Syriac Rite) was suppressed |
| 1800 | Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais was restored |
| 1838.02.01 | Titular Patriarchal See of Jerusalem (Greek-Melkite Rite) was established |
| 1847.10.04 | Patriarchal See of Jerusalem was restored (from Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo) |
| 1870 | Titular Episcopal See of Akka was suppressed (to Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais) |
| 1880 | Titular Episcopal See of Samaria was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Samaria |
| 1890 | Titular Episcopal See of Giovanni S. d’Acri (Maronite Rite) was suppressed |
| 1895 | Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais was suppressed |
| 1908 | Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem (Chaldean Rite) was established |
| 1909 | Titular Archiepiscopal See of Ptolemais was restored |
| 1911 | Titular Episcopal See of Nazareth (Maronite Rite) was suppressed |
| 1919 | Titular Episcopal See of Giovanni S. d’Acri (Maronite Rite) was restored |
| 1921 | Titular Archiepiscopal See of Helenopolis was established |
| 1924 | Titular Episcopal See of Hippus was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Hippus |
| 1925 | Titular Episcopal See of Diocæsarea antea Sepphoris was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Diocæsarea |
| 1925 | Titular Archiepiscopal See of Helenopolis was demoted as Titular Episcopal See of Helenopolis |
| 1925 | Titular Episcopal See of Ioppe was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Joppe |
| 1925 | Titular Episcopal See of Maximianopolis was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Maximianopolis |
| 1925 | Titular Episcopal See of Porphyreon was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Porphyrium |
| 1925 | Titular Archiepiscopal See of Ptolemais was demoted as Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais |
| 1925 | Titular Episcopal See of Giovanni S. d’Acri (Maronite Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais |
| 1925 | Titular Episcopal See of Samaria was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Sebaste |
| 1926 | Titular Episcopal See of Helenopolis was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Helenopolis |
| 1926 | Titular Archiepiscopal See of Nazareth (Maronite Rite) was restored |
| 1926 | Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais |
| 1926 | Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais (Maronite Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais |
| 1926 | Titular Episcopal See of Tricomia was suppressed |
| 1928 | Titular Episcopal See of Joppe was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Joppe |
| 1929 | Titular Episcopal See of Hippus was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Hippos |
| 1929 | Titular Episcopal See of Porphyrium was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Porphyreon |
| 1933 | Titular Metropolitan See of Cæsarea was renamed as Titular Metropolitan See of Cesarea in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Diocletianopolis was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Diocletianopolis in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Diocæsarea was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Diocæsarea in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Ecsalus was established |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Eleutheropolis was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Eleutheropolis in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of EmmaĂĽs was established |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Gabæ was established |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Gazera was established |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Gerara was established |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Helenopolis was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Helenopolis in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Iamnia was established |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Maximianopolis was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Massimianopolis in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Parembolæ in Palæstina was established |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Porphyreon was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Porphyreon |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais (Maronite Rite) was suppressed |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais in Phœnicia |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Sebaste was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Sebaste in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Sozusa was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Sozusa in Palæstina |
| 1933 | Titular Episcopal See of Zabulon was restored |
| 1939 | Titular Archiepiscopal See of Nazareth (Maronite Rite) was suppressed |
| 1956 | Titular Episcopal See of Ptolemais in Phœnicia (Maronite Rite) was restored |
| 1964.11.18 | Diocese of Akka (Greek-Melkite Rite) was promoted as Archdiocese of Akka |
| 1971 | Titular Episcopal See of Joppe was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Ioppe |
| 1991 | Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Maronite Rite) was established |
| 1991 | Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem (Chaldean Rite) was promoted as Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem |
| 1991 | Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Palestine and Jordan) (Syriac Rite) was established |
| 1991.10.01 | Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Armenian Rite) was established |
| 1996 | Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Maronite Rite) was suppressed |
| 1996.06.08 | Archdiocese of Haifa and Holy Land (Maronite Rite) was established (from Archdiocese of Tyr and without ecclesiastical province) |
| 1996.10.05 | Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Palestine (Maronite Rite) was established |
| 1997 | Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Chaldean Rite) was demoted as Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Jerusalem |
| 1998 | Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Armenian Rite) was demoted as Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Amman and Jerusalem |
| 2001 | Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Amman and Jerusalem (Armenian Rite) was promoted as Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Amman |
| 2023 | Titular Patriarchal See of Jerusalem (Greek-Melkite Rite) was suppressed |
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