It took a few decades for the Church to recognize the post-Yalta boundaries. New western Ukraine was still classified as eastern Poland, and in turn new western Poland was still considered eastern Germany. If I recall correctly it was during the 1970s Ostpolitik that the Vatican gave in and admitted Breslau was now Wroclaw etc. Also inte…
It took a few decades for the Church to recognize the post-Yalta boundaries. New western Ukraine was still classified as eastern Poland, and in turn new western Poland was still considered eastern Germany. If I recall correctly it was during the 1970s Ostpolitik that the Vatican gave in and admitted Breslau was now Wroclaw etc. Also interesting is the question of the first created, then eliminated boundary between the FRG and GDR. Based on the current map, the Archdiocese of Hamburg seems to clearly cross the ex-boundary, while other dioceses seem basically aligned with where it used to be. But I don't know when these present diocesan lines were drawn, whether before, during, or after the divided interlude.
In Ireland I assume there was zero support among the Catholic populace for realigning the boundaries. Anything that made the national boundary seem like a mistake would have been a thing they wanted to see continue.
It took a few decades for the Church to recognize the post-Yalta boundaries. New western Ukraine was still classified as eastern Poland, and in turn new western Poland was still considered eastern Germany. If I recall correctly it was during the 1970s Ostpolitik that the Vatican gave in and admitted Breslau was now Wroclaw etc. Also interesting is the question of the first created, then eliminated boundary between the FRG and GDR. Based on the current map, the Archdiocese of Hamburg seems to clearly cross the ex-boundary, while other dioceses seem basically aligned with where it used to be. But I don't know when these present diocesan lines were drawn, whether before, during, or after the divided interlude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_dioceses_in_Germany#/media/File:Deutschland_Kirchenprovinzen_beschriftet.png
In Ireland I assume there was zero support among the Catholic populace for realigning the boundaries. Anything that made the national boundary seem like a mistake would have been a thing they wanted to see continue.