Tags: Clerical Administrative Region, Diocese.
The Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Klaipėda was a Roman Catholic territorial prelature which existed from 1926 to 1991 in the Lithuanian coastal area of Klaipėda (Lithuanian Klaipėdos kraštas). Klaipėda had between 1328 and 1920 been part of East Prussia a province of Prussia which itself was part of Germany from 1871 to 1945/1947 but after the First World War it became part of the administration of the League of Nations. In 1923 Lithuania invaded the territory and annexed it.