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into two dioceses by territory of
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sect, founded in 1905 after separating from the Vadtal diocese, does not accept this document in literal interpretation yet does not rejects its validity. The BAPS founders too at one point served the original diocese according to Lekh. BAPS does acknowledge that
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To further protect
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