Tags: Clerical Administrative Region, Diocese.
The Diocese of Deventer is a suppressed diocese of the Catholic Church in the current Netherlands. It was erected in 1559 as a suffragan see to the Diocese of Utrecht which was raised to an Archdiocese at the same time at the request of king Philip II of Spain. The Diocese of Deventer covered Overijssel a part of Guelders and the counties of Zutphen Bentheim and Lingen.According to the 19th-century historian A.J.
