As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions , including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses , as well as apostolic vicariates , apostolic exarchates , apostolic administrations , apostolic prefectures , military ordinariates , personal ordinariates , personal prelatures , territorial prelatures , territorial abbacies and missions sui juris around the world.
In addition to these jurisdictions, there are 2,100 titular sees (bishoprics, archbishoprics and metropolitanates).
This is a structural list to show the relationships of each diocese to one another, grouped by ecclesiastical province , within each episcopal conference , within each continent or other geographical area.
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This map visualizes the provinces of the Catholic Church, as well as archdioceses (and other top-level entities) where provinces are not established. Types of Catholic dioceses
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This refers to Catholic dioceses in the world, of all Latin or Eastern churches, as of 5 October 2021[update] .[1]
Type
Total
Filled
Vacant
Holy See: St. Peter's Chair in Rome (papacy)
1
1
0
Ancient Patriarchal Sees of the East (Patriarchates)
6
6
0
Major Archiepiscopal Sees (Major Archeparchies)
4
4
0
Latin Patriarchal Sees
3
3
0
Titular Patriarchal Sees
4
3
1
Metropolitan Sees (Archdioceses & Eastern Archeparchies )
562
540
22
Other Archiepiscopal Sees (Latin Archdioceses & Eastern Archeparchies )
76
70
6
Episcopal Sees (Latin Dioceses & Eastern Eparchies )
2,248
2,033
215
Titular Metropolitan Sees including Archeparchies
92
14
78
Titular Archiepiscopal Sees including Archeparchies
91
6
85
Titular Episcopal Sees including Eparchies
1,913
1,059
854
Territorial Prelatures
49
36
4
Territorial Abbacies (Benedictine; often Exempt)
11
9
2
Military Ordinariates (all Exempt)
36
24
12
Personal Prelature (exempt)
1
1
0
Apostolic Vicariates (generally Exempt, mission)
84
75
9
Apostolic Prefectures (generally Exempt, mission)
39
14
25
Apostolic Administrations
8
7
1
Independent Missions (Missions sui iuris )
8
8
0
Additional types, exclusively for the Eastern Churches, Ordinariate Use and Extraordinary Form
Type
Total
Filled
Vacant
Metropolitan Sees (Eastern Archeparchies, Sui Juris )
5
5
0
Apostolic Exarchates (Eastern mission, Exempt)
13
11
2
Ordinariates for the Faithful of the Eastern Churches (Eastern, Exempt)
9
6
3
Personal Ordinariates (Western Anglican Patrimony, Anglican/Ordinariate Use, Exempt)
3
3
0
Patriarchal Exarchates (Eastern missions)
10
8
2
Archiepiscopal Exarchates (Eastern)
5
4
1
Territories Dependent on the Patriarch (Eastern)
5
4
1
Personal Apostolic Administration (unique case, Exempt)
1
1
0
Exempt Catholic Dioceses (directly subject to the Holy See)
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These (arch)dioceses are exempt from belonging to any ecclesiastical province , hence only the Vatican can exert the authority and coordinating functions normally falling to the Metropolitan Archbishop. They are grouped here geographically. Nevertheless, most belong to an episcopal conference , in which case the more relevant mention is in its geographical region, as exempt dioceses as such do not have specific ties with each other.
Military Ordinariates are in pastoral charge of the troops of a state, but may be vested in a Metropolitan Archbishop, typically in the national capital.
Also generally exempt are the apostolic prefectures and apostolic vicariates , which tend to be temporary missionary dioceses, expected to become part of an ecclesiastical province when promoted to regular (arch- or suffragan) bishopric.
The Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans (who left the Anglican Communion for communion with the Holy See) are allowed to use the Ordinariate Use , which is counted as a variant usage of the Roman Rite (unlike the Eastern churches' five distinct rites).
Eastern Ordinariates are in pastoral charge of all Eastern Churches, of only those of Byzantine Rite or even just of the Armenian Rite, in one or more states of various Catholic churches without any proper diocese there, but are usually vested in a Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop, often in the capital.
Disregarded are many episcopal or archiepiscopal prelates in the Roman Curia , as their dicasteries don't constitute dioceses, although many posts there require by law or custom a bishop or an archbishop (usually titular), just as the Vatican's diplomatic posts in nearly every national capital. Universal or transcontinental exempt dioceses (not counting minor dependencies)
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European exempt dioceses
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in Italy :
some (arch)bishoprics under the papal Metropolitan see at Rome, including
Military Ordinariate of Italy , cumulated with varying sees
Archdiocese of Lucca
Territorial Abbey of Montecassino , whose cathedral see is a minor basilica
Territorial Abbacy of Monte Oliveto Maggiore , with cathedral see in Siena, seat of the abbot-general of the Olivetans (a Benedictine congregation)
formerly the Territorial Abbey of San Paolo fuori le Mura (since 2005, just an abbey, territory incorporated into the diocese of Rome)
Territorial Abbacy of Subiaco , whose cathedral see and co-cathedral are minor basilicas
Italo-Albanese Territorial Abbacy of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata , only non-Latin Church territorial abbey: Italo-Albanese Catholic rite
Italo-Albanese Diocese of Piana degli Albanesi , with cathedral see at Palermo, on Sicily
Italo-Albanese Diocese of Lungro , with cathedral see at Lungro, near Cosenza in Calabria
in Austria :
in Belgium : Military Ordinariate of Belgium , vested in the primatial Metropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina , not vested in any see
in Bulgaria :
in Croatia :
in the Czech Republic :
in and for all Denmark : Diocese of Copenhagen , including its overseas territories Greenland and the Faroe Islands
in and for all Estonia : Apostolic Administration of Estonia (at Tallinn),
Finland , including the autonomous region of Åland : Diocese of Helsinki
in France :
in Germany
in and for all Gibraltar : Diocese of Gibraltar
in Greece :
in Hungary :
in and for all Iceland : Diocese of Reykjavík
in Kosovo :
in and for all the principality of Liechtenstein : Archdiocese of Vaduz
in Lithuania : Military Ordinariate of Lithuania
in and for all the Grand duchy of Luxemburg : Archdiocese of Luxembourg
in and for all Moldova (Moldavia): Diocese of Chişinău
in and for all the principality of Monaco : Archdiocese of Monaco
in Montenegro : Archdiocese of Bar
in the Netherlands : Military Ordinariate of the Netherlands , cumulated with varying sees
in North Macedonia : Macedonian Catholic Eparchy of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Strumica-Skopje
in Norway:
in Poland :
in Portugal : Military Ordinariate of Portugal , not vested in any see
in Romania :
in Russia (cfr. infra Eastern Europe & Asia ):
in Sweden : Diocese of Stockholm
in Serbia : Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Ruski Krstur , for Catholics of Byzantine Rite in Serbia
Military Ordinariate of Slovakia , not vested in any see
Military Ordinariate of Spain , ranking as archbishop, cumulated with varying sees
in Switzerland , all diocesan sees (joined in a national episcopal conference, without province):
in the UK :
Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe , actually only for Armenia , Georgia (country) , Russia and Ukraine Asian exempt dioceses
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Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem , for all of the Holy Land (Palestine & Israel ), Jordan and Cyprus
Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo , for all of Syria
Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut , for all of Lebanon
Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia , in Kuwait City , for all of Kuwait , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia , in Abu Dhabi (UAE), for all of Oman , United Arab Emirates and Yemen
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad , covering Iraq
Apostolic Vicariate of Brunei Darussalam , covering Brunei
all dioceses in Cambodia (joined in a common episcopal conference with Laos):
in China:
in India:
in Indonesia : Military Ordinariate of Indonesia
in and for all Iran (Persia): Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (for former Anglicans in Australia and Japan ).
in Korea (North and South):
all dioceses in Laos (joined in a common episcopal conference with Cambodia):
in the Philippines :
in Pakistan : Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta
in Russia (cfr. Europe ): Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk , on Sakhalin island off eastern Siberia
in and for all Singapore : Archdiocese of Singapore
in Turkey :
New World exempt dioceses
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in Argentina :
in Australia:
in Bolivia :
in Brazil :
in Canada:
in Chile :
in Colombia :
in Dominican Republic : Military Ordinariate of Dominican Republic
in Ecuador :
in El Salvador : Military Ordinariate of El Salvador
Apostolic Prefecture of Falkland Islands , for the Southern Atlantic UK overseas territories Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
in New Zealand: Military Ordinariate of New Zealand
in Paraguay :
in Peru :
in Tonga :
in the United States:
Military Ordinariate of the United States: Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter , with see in Houston, Texas (for former Anglicans in the United States and in Canada)
Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George's in Canton , bishopric for the diaspora in North America (also Canada), with cathedral see in Canton, Ohio (USA)
Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of St. Mary, Queen of Peace, of the United States of America and Canada , with cathedral see at Elmont, New York
in Venezuela :
African exempt dioceses
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Europe (Latin and Eastern Churches)
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There are also 'meetings of episcopal conferences' for the (arch)bishops from countries belonging to:
Exempt dioceses in European countries without ecclesiastical province or national conference
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Exempt (arch)dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See, each for a whole small country Episcopal Conference of Austria
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Exempt dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Salzburg Ecclesiastical Province of Vienna Episcopal Conference of Belgium
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Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See Military Ordinariate of Belgium , ranking as bishopric, vested in the primatial Metropolitan see of Mechelen-Brussels
For the Ukrainian Catholics, see France Ecclesiastical Province of Mechelen-Brussels, covering Belgium Episcopal Conference of England and Wales (parts of the UK)
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Dioceses in England and Wales also comprises - without separate dioceses - three European insular crown dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey Exempt dioceses Ecclesiastical province of Birmingham Ecclesiastical province of Cardiff, for Wales Ecclesiastical province of Liverpool Ecclesiastical province of Southwark Ecclesiastical province of Westminster Episcopal Conference of France
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(The ecclesiastical provinces' corresponding administrative regions are mentioned in parentheses)
For overseas French dioceses, see under their continents and Episcopal conferences of Antilles (Central America) and Pacific (Oceania)
Exempt Latin dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See Eastern Church dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See (exempt) or to their particular church's Patriarch or Major Archbishop Armenian Catholic Diocese of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris , Eparchy with cathedral see in Paris , in and for France, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia , but not part of his province
Maronite Eparchy of Notre-Dame du Liban de Paris , with cathedral see Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province; also Apostolic Visitor in Western and Northern Europe of the Maronites
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris (Ukrainian Catholic Byzantine Rite Eparchy in France), with cathedral see in Paris, directly subject to the Major Archbishop, for France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France , exempt, vested in the Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Paris, for Eastern Rites without proper ordinary Catholic dioceses of metropolitan France . Provinces are demarcated by bold lines and their sees (Metropolitan archdioceses) written in bold letters.Ecclesiastical Province of Besançon (Franche-Comté and part of Lorraine ) Ecclesiastical Province of Bordeaux (Aquitaine ) Ecclesiastical Province of Clermont (Auvergne ) Ecclesiastical Province of Dijon (Burgundy ) Ecclesiastical Province of Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais ) Ecclesiastical Province of Lyon (Rhône-Alpes ) Ecclesiastical Province of Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur and Corsica ) Ecclesiastical Province of Montpellier (Languedoc-Roussillon ) Ecclesiastical Province of Paris (capital region Ile-de-France ) Ecclesiastical Province of Poitiers (Poitou-Charentes and Limousin ) Ecclesiastical Province of Reims (Champagne-Ardenne and Picardy ) Ecclesiastical Province of Rennes (Brittany and Pays de la Loire ) Ecclesiastical Province of Rouen (Upper - and Lower Normandy ) Eccleasiastical Province of Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées ) Eccleasiastical Province of Tours (Centre-Val de Loire region) Episcopal Conference of Germany
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Provinces and Dioceses in Germany Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Bamberg Ecclesiastical province of Berlin [Lower] Rhenish ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Cologne) Upper Rhenish ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Freiburg im Breisgau) Northern German ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Hamburg) Ecclesiastical province of Munich and Freising, in Bavaria Central German ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Paderborn) Episcopal Conference of Ireland, i.e. the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Catholic Dioceses in the island of Ireland. The colours indicate the ecclesiastical provinces , and the dark areas are archdioceses . Ecclesiastical province of Armagh — covers all of Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and part of the Republic of Ireland Ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly (Republic of Ireland) Ecclesiastical province of Dublin (Republic of Ireland) Ecclesiastical province of Tuam (Republic of Ireland) Episcopal Conference of Italy, including San Marino and Vatican City
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Catholic provinces in Italy Ecclesiastical Province of Rome
See: Diocese of Rome § Suffragan sees other exempt Italian (arch)dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See but not part of the province of Rome Ecclesiastical Province of Venice Ecclesiastical Province of Agrigento, on Sicily Ecclesiastical Province of Ancona-Osimo Ecclesiastical Province of Bari-Bitonto Ecclesiastical Province of Benevento Ecclesiastical Province of Bologna Ecclesiastical Province of Cagliari, on Sardinia Ecclesiastical Province of Campobasso-Boiano Ecclesiastical Province of Catania, on Sicily Ecclesiastical Province of Catanzaro-Squillace Ecclesiastical Province of Chieti-Vasto Ecclesiastical Province of Cosenza-Bisignano Ecclesiastical Province of Fermo Ecclesiastical Province of Florence Ecclesiastical Province of Foggia-Bovino Ecclesiastical Province of Genoa Ecclesiastical Province of Gorizia Ecclesiastical Province of L'Aquila Ecclesiastical Province of Lecce Ecclesiastical Province of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, on Sicily Ecclesiastical Province of Milan Ecclesiastical Province of Modena-Nonantola Ecclesiastical Province of Naples Ecclesiastical Province of Oristano Ecclesiastical Province of Palermo, on Sicily Ecclesiastical Province of Perugia-Città della Pieve Ecclesiastical Province of Pesaro Ecclesiastical Province of Pescara-Penne Ecclesiastical Province of Pisa Ecclesiastical Province of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo Ecclesiastical Province of Ravenna-Cervia Ecclesiastical Province of Reggio Calabria-Bova Ecclesiastical Province of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno Ecclesiastical Province of Sassari, on Sardinia Ecclesiastical Province of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino Ecclesiastical Province of Siracusa, on Sicily Ecclesiastical Province of Taranto Ecclesiastical Province of Turin Ecclesiastical Province of Trento Ecclesiastical Province of Udine Ecclesiastical Province of Vercelli Episcopal Conference of Malta
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Ecclesiastical Province of Malta Episcopal Conference of the Netherlands
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Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Utrecht, covering the Netherlands proper Episcopal Conference of Portugal, incl. Azores and Madeira
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Portuguese Catholic dioceses map Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Lisboa (Lisbon) Ecclesiastical Province of Braga Ecclesiastical Province of Évora Episcopal Conference of Scandinavia
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Scandinavian Bishops Conference
All exempt, each directly subject to the Holy See, no provincial or national conferences (and two more Nordic countries, not geographically part of Scandinavia proper, also both exempt) Episcopal Conference of Scotland (part of UK)
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Map of Catholic dioceses in Scotland the Military Ordinariate for Great-Britain for UK-based troops, being joint with England & Wales, is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical province of Glasgow Ecclesiastical province of St Andrews and Edinburgh Map of Dioceses of Spain Episcopal Conference of Spain (incl. African territories) and Andorra
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Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical province of Barcelona Ecclesiastical province of Burgos Ecclesiastical province of Granada Ecclesiastical province of Madrid Ecclesiastical province of Mérida-Badajoz Ecclesiastical province of Oviedo Ecclesiastical province of Pamplona Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Compostela Ecclesiastical province of Seville, mainly comprising Andalusia Ecclesiastical province of Tarragona Ecclesiastical province of Toledo Ecclesiastical province of Valencia, including the Balearic Isles Ecclesiastical province of Valladolid Ecclesiastical province of Zaragoza Episcopal Conference of Switzerland
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Swiss Bishops Conference
only exempt dioceses, each immediately subject to the Holy See Episcopal Conference of Albania
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Ecclesiastical province of Shkodër–Pult: Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult
Diocese of Sapë
Diocese of Lezhë
Ecclesiastical province of Tiranë-Durrës: Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës
Diocese of Rrëshen
Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania
Ecclesiastical Province of Shkodër-Pult (Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Tiranë-Durrës (mixed Churches) Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius - for Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
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The Republic of Macedonia has Montenegro has no national level, but two Latin diocesesthe exempt senior see: Archdiocese of Bar , directly subject to the Holy See
Diocese of Kotor , suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Croatian Metropolitan Archdiocese of Split–MakarskaEcclesiastical Province of Beograd (Belgrado), Latin, covering Serbia Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Ruski Krstur , for Catholics of Byzantine Rite in Serbia Episcopal Conference of Belarus
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The Belarusian Catholic Church (Byzantine Rite ) has no proper diocese presently, only an apostolic visitor for Belarus and another for abroad, neither vested in any see (Latin) Ecclesiastical Province of Miensk-Mahiloǔ Episcopal Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Latin Catholic dioceses in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Archdiocese of Vrhbosna
Diocese of Banja Luka
Diocese of Mostar-Duvno
Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan
Diocese of Gospić-Senj (Zavalje parish)
Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Sarajevo, covering all Bosnia and Herzegovina and ... Croatian Catholic Eparchy of Križevci , the Croatian proper diocese of the Byzantine rite Eastern Croatian Catholic Church , suffragan of the Metropolitan of Zagreb, also covers Catholics of Byzantine Rite in all of Slovenia and Bosnia and HerzegovinaEpiscopal Conference of Bulgaria
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Bulgaria has no ecclesiastical province, only exempt Ordinariates, immediately subject to the Holy See, of two Churches
Episcopal Conference of Croatia
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Ecclesiastical hierarchy and provinces in countries of Adriatic Sea: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Đakovo-Osijek, also known as Simium (Sirmio) Ecclesiastical Province of Rijeka Ecclesiastical Province of Split-Makarska Ecclesiastical Province of Zagreb (Latin and Eastern Churches) Episcopal Conference of the Czech Republic
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Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Bohemia or Prague (after its Metropolitan see) Ecclesiastical Province of Moravia or Olomouc (after its Metropolitan see) Episcopal Conference of Greece
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Catholic Dioceses in Greece Exempt Latin (arch)dioceses, immediately depending from the Holy See Exempt Eastern Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia (for Ionian islands) Ecclesiastical Province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos (for various Aegean islands) Episcopal Conference of Hungary (Latin and Eastern Churches)
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Map of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Hungary
Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Eger Ecclesiastical Province of Esztergom-Budapest Ecclesiastical Province of Kalocsa-Kecskemét Ecclesiastical Province of Veszprém Hungarian Catholic church Metropolitanate sui iuris Episcopal Conference of Latvia
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Ecclesiastical Province of Riga, covering Latvia Episcopal Conference of Lithuania
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Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Vilnius Ecclesiastical Province of Kaunas Episcopal Conference of Poland
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Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical province of Białystok Ecclesiastical province of Częstochowa Ecclesiastical province of Gdańsk Ecclesiastical province of Gniezno Ecclesiastical province of Katowice Ecclesiastical province of Kraków Ecclesiastical province of Łódź Ecclesiastical province of Lublin Ecclesiastical province of Poznań Ecclesiastical province of Przemyśl Ecclesiastical province of Szczecin-Kamień Ecclesiastical province of Warmia Ecclesiastical province of Warszawa Ecclesiastical province of Wrocław Ukrainian Greek Catholic province of Przemyśl–Warszawa Episcopal Conference of Romania
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Administrative map of the Latin and Armenian Catholic hierarchies in Romania Exempt (immediately subject to Rome, no ecclesiastical province) Ecclesiastical Province of Bucharest (Latin) Eastern Catholic (Byzantine Rite ) Major Archiepiscopal Romanian (Greek) Catholic Church's ecclesiastical (sole) province sui juris, covering Romania Episcopal Conference of the Russian Federation
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Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Moscow (partly in Asia- eastern Siberia) also includes, in Asia, one exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See: Episcopal Conference of Slovakia
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Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Bratislava (Latin) Ecclesiastical Province of Košice (Latin) Slovak Catholic Metropolitanate sui juris of Prešov (Eastern Catholic, Byzantine rite) Slovak Catholic Archeparchy of Prešov , the Metropolitan head of the particular church and its sole province's Metropolitan Archeparch (Archbishop), with suffragan Eparchies (bishoprics)
Episcopal Conference of Slovenia
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Ecclesiastical Province of Ljubljana Ecclesiastical Province of Maribor Croatian Catholic Eparchy of Križevci , the Croatian proper diocese of the Byzantine rite Eastern Croatian Catholic Church , suffragan of the Metropolitan of Zagreb, also covers Catholics of Byzantine Rite in all of Slovenia and Bosnia and HerzegovinaEpiscopal Conference of Ukraine
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Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical province of Lviv, covering the Latin church in all Ukraine , including the Russian-annexed Crimea (Krym) Armenian Catholic (Armenian rite ) Ruthenian Catholic (Byzantine rite ) Ukrainian Catholic (Byzantine rite) Metropolitanates North America (Latin and Eastern Churches)
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Episcopal Conference of Canada
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Map of Catholic dioceses in Canada Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical province of Edmonton, comprising most of the province of Alberta . Ecclesiastical province of Gatineau, comprising the western and northern parts of the province of Quebec . Ecclesiastical province of Grouard–McLennan, comprising the northernmost parts of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia , as well as the Yukon and Northwest Territories . Ecclesiastical province of Halifax, comprising the provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island . Ecclesiastical province of Keewatin-Le Pas, comprising the northern parts of the provinces of Saskatchewan , Manitoba , and Ontario , and the territory of Nunavut . Ecclesiastical province of Kingston, comprising the central portions of the Canadian province of Ontario . Ecclesiastical province of Moncton, comprising the province of New Brunswick . Ecclesiastical province of Montréal, in Quebec, comprising the island of Montreal and surrounding areas to the north and south. Ecclesiastical province of Ottawa, comprising the northeastern part of the province of Ontario and a small portion of Quebec . Ecclesiastical province of Québec, comprising only the central part of the province of Quebec , centering on the civil provincial capital Quebec City . Ecclesiastical province of Regina, comprising the southern part of the province of Saskatchewan . Ecclesiastical province of Rimouski, comprising the Gaspé Peninsula and the areas across the St. Lawrence River to the north, in the province of Quebec . Ecclesiastical province of Saint Boniface, comprising the southwest part of the province of Manitoba . Ecclesiastical province of St. John's, Newfoundland, comprising the province of Newfoundland and Labrador . Ecclesiastical province of Sherbrooke, comprising the part of the province of Quebec to the southeast of Montreal . Ecclesiastical province of Toronto, comprising the southwest part of the province of Ontario , with the non-contiguous Diocese of Thunder Bay in western Ontario. Ecclesiastical province of Vancouver, comprising most of the province of British Columbia . Ukrainian Catholic province of Winnipeg Other Eastern church dioceses in Canada, immediately subject to their particular churches See also USA for joint Armenian Catholic and Romanian Catholic dioceses and the personal ordinariate for former Anglicans Episcopal Conference of Mexico
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Ecclesiastical province of Acapulco Ecclesiastical province of Tijuana (Baja California) Ecclesiastical province of Léon (Bajío) Ecclesiastical province of Tuxtla Gutierrez (Chiapas) Ecclesiastical province of Chihuahua Ecclesiastical province of Durango Ecclesiastical province of Guadalajara Ecclesiastical province of Hermosillo Ecclesiastical province of Tulancingo (Hidalgo) Ecclesiastical province of Jalapa (Xalapa) Ecclesiastical province of México Ecclesiastical province of Monterrey Ecclesiastical province of Morelia Ecclesiastical province of (Antequera (de)) Oaxaca (Oaxaca) Ecclesiastical province of Puebla (de los Angeles) Ecclesiastical province of San Luis Potosí Ecclesiastical province of Tlalnepantla Ecclesiastical province of Toluca Ecclesiastical province of Yucatán Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica
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Ecclesiastical province of San José de Costa Rica Episcopal Conference of El Salvador
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Exempt military ordinariate, immediately subject to the Holy See, Ecclesiastical province of San Salvador, covering El Salvador Episcopal Conference of Guatemala
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Exempt dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Guatemala Ecclesiastical province of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán Episcopal Conference of Honduras
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Ecclesiastical province of Tegucigalpa, covering Honduras Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua
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Ecclesiastical province of Managua, covering Nicaragua Episcopal Conference of Panama
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Exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Panamá, covering Panama Episcopal Conference of the (Lesser) Antilles (and Belize and Guyanas)
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the Diocese of Saint-Thomas , with see in Charlotte Amalie , on St. Thomas, on and for the U.S. Virgin Islands , is a suffragan of the mainland-North American Metropolitan Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) Ecclesiastical province of Castries - comprising several current and former British colonies in the Lesser Antilles . Ecclesiastical province of Fort-de-France - comprising the French territories in the Caribbean. Ecclesiastical province of Kingston in (and covering) Jamaica , also comprising several other former and current British colonies in the Western Caribbean. Ecclesiastical province of Nassau - comprising several current and former British territories to the north of the Caribbean. Ecclesiastical province of Port of Spain - comprising several former British or Dutch colonies in the southeastern Caribbean and northern South America. Metropolitan Archdiocese of Port of Spain , on and for Trinidad and Tobago
Diocese of Bridgetown , on and for Barbados
Diocese of Willemstad , on Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles , also for Aruba , Bonaire , Saba , Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten
Diocese of Georgetown , in Guyana (in South America, formerly British)
Diocese of Paramaribo , in Suriname (in South America, formerly Dutch Guyana)Episcopal Conference of Cuba
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Ecclesiastical province of (San Cristóbal de) la Habana Ecclesiastical province of Camagüey Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Cuba Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic
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exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, but often held by the capital's archbishop
Ecclesiastical province of Santo Domingo Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de los Caballeros Episcopal Conference of Haiti
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Ecclesiastical province of Cap-Haïtien Ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince Episcopal Conference of Puerto Rico
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Ecclesiastical province of San Juan de Puerto Rico, covering the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Episcopal Conference of the United States of America
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Exempt, immediately subject to the holy See and not part of a Bishops' Region Provinces and dioceses of the Latin Church in the United States. Each color represents one of the 32 Latin-rite provinces. Not depicted are the U.S. Virgin Islands, which constitute the Diocese of St. Thomas, the sole suffragan diocese in the Province of Washington, D.C. Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) divides the non-exempt dioceses of the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) into fourteen geographical regions—termed "Bishops' Regions" for the Latin Church provinces—and a fifteenth "region" that consists of the Eastern Catholic eparchies. These regions are not the canonical "ecclesiastical regions" described in canon 433 and 434, but are operated by an elected regional chairman. [2] However, the Ordinaries of Personal Ordinariates established under the auspices of Anglicanorum Coetibus are members of their respective Bishops’ Conferences, and the USCCB lists the exempt Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter as a part of Bishops’ Region X.
Bishops' Region I
Ecclesiastical province of Boston, comprising the states of Maine , Massachusetts , New Hampshire and Vermont . Ecclesiastical province of Hartford, comprising the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island , as well as Fishers Island in the state of New York . Bishops' Region II
Ecclesiastical province of New York, comprising the state of New York except for Fishers Island . Bishops' Region III
Ecclesiastical province of Newark, comprising the state of New Jersey . Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia, comprising the state of Pennsylvania . Bishops' Region IV
Ecclesiastical province of Baltimore, comprising most of the state of Maryland as well as the states of Delaware , Virginia and West Virginia . Ecclesiastical province of Washington, comprising the District of Columbia , 5 counties in southern Maryland , and the United States Virgin Islands . Bishops' Region V
Ecclesiastical province of Louisville, comprising the states of Kentucky and Tennessee . Ecclesiastical province of Mobile, comprising the states of Alabama and Mississippi . Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans, comprising the state of Louisiana . Bishops' Region VI
Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati, comprising the state of Ohio . Ecclesiastical province of Detroit, comprising the state of Michigan . Bishops' Region VII
Ecclesiastical province of Chicago, comprising the state of Illinois . Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis, comprising the state of Indiana . Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee, comprising the state of Wisconsin . Bishops' Region VIII
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, comprising the states of Minnesota , North Dakota and South Dakota . Bishops' Region IX
Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque, comprising the state of Iowa . Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City, comprising the state of Kansas . Ecclesiastical province of Omaha, comprising the state of Nebraska . Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis, comprising the state of Missouri . Bishops' Region X
Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston, comprising the east and southeast parts of the state of Texas . Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio, comprising the west and north of the state of Texas . Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City, comprising the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma . Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, comprising former Anglicans throughout the United States (and Canada). Bishops' Region XI
Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles, comprising the southern part of the state of California . Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco, comprising the northern part of the state of California and the state of Hawaii (in Oceania ) . Bishops' Region XII
Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage-Juneau, comprising the state of Alaska . Ecclesiastical province of Portland in Oregon, comprising the states of Idaho , Montana and Oregon , except for the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana. Ecclesiastical province of Seattle, comprising the state of Washington Bishops' Region XIII
Ecclesiastical province of Denver, comprising the states of Colorado and Wyoming , as well as the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana . Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe, comprising the states of Arizona and New Mexico . Ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas, comprising the states of Nevada and Utah . Bishops' Region XIV
Ecclesiastical province of Miami, comprising the state of Florida . Ecclesiastical province of Atlanta, comprising the states of Georgia , North Carolina , and South Carolina . Bishops' Region XV This is not a geographical region and it does not consist of ecclesiastical provinces. Instead, it consists exclusively of US branches of various, generally Europe- or Asia-based, particular Eastern Catholic Churches. See the Eastern Catholic Churches section (below) for their particular hierarchies.
Antiochian rites
Maronite Church Syriac Catholic Church Syro-Malankara Catholic Church Armenian rite
Armenian Catholic Church Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) rites
Melkite Greek Catholic Church Romanian Catholic Church Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (only sui iuris Church headquartered in the Americas) Ecclesiastical province of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia
Syro-Oriental Rites
Chaldean Catholic Church Syro-Malabar Catholic Church South America (Latin and Eastern Churches)
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Exempt diocese, directly subject to the Holy See Episcopal Conference of Argentina
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(Latin and Eastern Churches)
exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Bahía Blanca Ecclesiastical province of Buenos Aires Ecclesiastical province of Córdoba Ecclesiastical province of Corrientes Ecclesiastical province of La Plata
Ecclesiastical province of Mendoza
Ecclesiastical province of Mercedes-Luján Ecclesiastical province of Paraná
Ecclesiastical province of Resistencia Ecclesiastical province of Rosario Ecclesiastical province of Salta Ecclesiastical province of San Juan Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe Ecclesiastical province of Tucumán Episcopal Conference of Bolivia
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exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Cochabamba Ecclesiastical province of La Paz Ecclesiastical province of Santa Cruz de la Sierra Ecclesiastical province of Sucre Episcopal Conference of Brazil
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Catholic Ecclesiastical provinces of Brazil Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Aparecida Ecclesiastical province of Aracaju Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará Ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte Ecclesiastical province of Botucatu Ecclesiastical province of Brasília Ecclesiastical province of Campinas Ecclesiastical province of Campo Grande Ecclesiastical province of Cascavel Ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá Ecclesiastical province of Curitiba Ecclesiastical province of Diamantina Ecclesiastical province of Feira de Santana Ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis Ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza Ecclesiastical province of Goiânia Ecclesiastical province of Juiz de Fora Ecclesiastical province of Londrina Ecclesiastical province of Maceió Ecclesiastical province of Manaus Ecclesiastical province of Mariana Ecclesiastical province of Maringá Ecclesiastical province of Montes Claros Ecclesiastical province of Natal Ecclesiastical province of Niterói Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife Ecclesiastical province of Palmas Ecclesiastical province of Paraíba Ecclesiastical province of Passo Fundo Ecclesiastical province of Pelotas Ecclesiastical province of Porto Alegre Ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho Ecclesiastical province of Pouso Alegre Ecclesiastical province of Ribeirão Preto Ecclesiastical province of Santa Maria Ecclesiastical province of Santarem Ecclesiastical province of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian Catholic , a Byzantine Rite ) Ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão Ecclesiastical province of São Paulo (Roman and Byzantine rites) Ecclesiastical province of São Salvador da Bahia Ecclesiastical province of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro Ecclesiastical province of Sorocaba Ecclesiastical province of Teresina Ecclesiastical province of Uberaba Ecclesiastical province of Vitória Ecclesiastical province of Vitória da Conquista Episcopal Conference of Chile
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exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Antofagasta Ecclesiastical province of Concepción Ecclesiastical province of La Serena Ecclesiastical province of Puerto Montt Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Chile Episcopal Conference of Colombia
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exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Barranquilla Ecclesiastical province of Bogotá Ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga Ecclesiastical province of Cali Ecclesiastical province of Cartagena Ecclesiastical province of Florencia Ecclesiastical province of Ibagué Ecclesiastical province of Manizales Ecclesiastical province of Medellín Ecclesiastical province of Nueva Pamplona Ecclesiastical province of Popayán Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe de Antioquia Ecclesiastical province of Tunja Ecclesiastical province of Villavicencio Episcopal Conference of Ecuador
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exempt missionary circonscriptions, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Cuenca Ecclesiastical province of Guayaquil Ecclesiastical province of Portoviejo Ecclesiastical province of Quito Episcopal Conference of Paraguay
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exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Asunción Episcopal Conference of Peru
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exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Arequipa Ecclesiastical province of Ayacucho Ecclesiastical province of Cuzco Ecclesiastical province of Huancayo Ecclesiastical province of Lima Ecclesiastical province of Piura Ecclesiastical province of Trujillo Episcopal Conference of Uruguay
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Ecclesiastical province of Montevideo Episcopal Conference of Venezuela
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Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Barquisimeto Ecclesiastical province of Calabozo Ecclesiastical province of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela Ecclesiastical province of Ciudad Bolívar Ecclesiastical province of Coro Ecclesiastical province of Cumaná Ecclesiastical province of Maracaibo Ecclesiastical province of Mérida in Venezuela Ecclesiastical province of Valencia en Venezuela Asia (Latin and Eastern Churches)
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Exempt dioceses or mission sui juris in Asian countries without episcopal conferences or ecclesiastical provinces
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exempt, nation-covering diocesan circonscriptions, often not called after the see, each immediately subject to the Holy See Apostolic Prefecture of Baku , in and for all Azerbaijan
Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan , in Bishkek , for all Kyrgyzstan
Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal , in Kathmandu , for all Nepal
Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan , in Tashkent , for all Uzbekistan
Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia for Faithful of Byzantine Rite , in Karaganda , for Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan Missions sui juris (not requiring a prelate; just an ecclesiastical superior), immediately subject to the Holy See Episcopal conference of the Arab region Latin bishops (includes parts of North and Eastern Africa)
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all Latin dioceses are exempt, i.e. no ecclesiastical province, but each immediately subject to the Holy See. They alone constitute the Episcopal conference proper, not the numerous Eastern Catholic Ordinaries, who are grouped in specific 'national' Assemblies below in Asian Middle East: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem , no suffragan, for all of the Holy Land (Palestine & Israel), Jordan and Cyprus
Archdiocese of Baghdad , no suffragan, for all of Iraq
Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo , for all of Syria
Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut , for all of Lebanon
Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia , in Kuwait City , for all of Kuwait , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia , in Abu Dhabi (UAE), for all of Oman , United Arab Emirates and Yemen in Africa: see there (for Egypt, Djibouti and Somalia) Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Egypt
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Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (Palestine/Israel & Jordan)
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Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Iraq
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Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Lebanon
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Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in Syria
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Episcopal Conference of Iran
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No ecclesiastical province, the Latin Church has only the exempt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan , directly subject to the Holy See
The conference also includes Eastern Catholic bishops of two churches:
Chaldean Rite - four dioceses - archdioceses Ahvaz, Tehran (Metropolitan), Urmyā (Shahpur) and its sole suffragan, Salmas
Armenian Rite - diocese of Isfahan Episcopal Conference of Kazakhstan
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Ecclesiastical Province of Mary Most Holy in Astana, covering all Kazakhstan Episcopal Conference of Turkey
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Latin Church dioceses in Turkey covering transcontinental Turkey , which is not comprised in any Latin ecclesiastical province
Exempt Latin dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See Eastern (arch)dioceses, directly subject to their Patriarchs Episcopal Conference of Bangladesh
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Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bangladesh
Ecclesiastical Province of Dhaka Ecclesiastical Province of Chittagong Episcopal Conference of Burma (Myanmar)
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Ecclesiastical Province of Mandalay Ecclesiastical Province of Taunggyi Ecclesiastical Province of Yangon (Rangoon) Episcopal Conference of East Timor
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Episcopal Conference of India, including Bhutan
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Latin Church provinces and dioceses of the Catholic church in India. The dioceses making up a province have different shades of the same colour includes (italicized) various Eastern Church dioceses, notably Syro-Malankara (an Antiochian Rite ) and Syro-Malabar (a Syro-Oriental Rite ), either in Eastern provinces of their own particular churches , exempt or (some Syro-Malabar) as suffragans of Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishops in their mixed-rite ecclesiastical provinces
Exempt Eastern Catholic eparchies (diocese), immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Agra Ecclesiastical Province of Bangalore (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Bhopal Ecclesiastical Province of Bombay Ecclesiastical Province of Calcutta (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Delhi (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Gandhinagar Ecclesiastical Province of Goa and Daman (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Guwahati (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Hyderabad Ecclesiastical Province of Imphal (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Madras and Mylapore (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Madurai (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Nagpur Ecclesiastical Province of Patna (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Raipur Ecclesiastical Province of Ranchi (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Shillong (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Thiruvananthapuram (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Verapoly (entirely Latin Church) Ecclesiastical Province of Visakhapatnam (entirely Latin Church) Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Eranakulam - Angamaly Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Changanassery Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Tellicherry Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Thrissur Ecclesiastical Province of Trivandrum Ecclesiastical Province of Tiruvalla Episcopal Conference of Indonesia
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Exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Jakarta Ecclesiastical Province of Ende Ecclesiastical Province of Kupang Ecclesiastical Province of Makassar Ecclesiastical Province of Medan Ecclesiastical Province of Merauke Ecclesiastical Province of Palembang Ecclesiastical Province of Pontianak Ecclesiastical Province of Samarinda Ecclesiastical Province of Semarang Episcopal Conference of Laos and Cambodia
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three exempt missionary dioceses in Cambodia , no ecclesiastical province but directly subject to Rome four exempt missionary dioceses in Laos , no ecclesiastical province but directly subject to Rome Episcopal Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei
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Exempt (arch)dioceses in Brunei and Singapore (no provinces nor national episcopal conferences, immediately subject to Rome) Ecclesiastical Province of Kuala Lumpur, in Peninsular Malaysia (Malaya) Ecclesiastical Province of Kuching, in Sarawak state, on Borneo Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu, in Sabah state, on Borneo Episcopal Conference of Pakistan
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Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (P.C.B.C.)
Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Karachi, in Sindh province Ecclesiastical Province of Lahore, in Punjab province Episcopal Conference of the Philippines
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Exempt dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Caceres Ecclesiastical Province of Cagayan de Oro Ecclesiastical Province of Capiz Ecclesiastical Province of Cebu Ecclesiastical Province of Cotabato Ecclesiastical Province of Davao Ecclesiastical Province of Jaro Ecclesiastical Province of Lingayen-Dagupan Ecclesiastical Province of Lipa Ecclesiastical Province of Manila Ecclesiastical Province of Nueva Segovia Ecclesiastical Province of Ozamis Ecclesiastical Province of Palo Ecclesiastical Province of San Fernando Ecclesiastical Province of Tuguegarao Ecclesiastical Province of Zamboanga Episcopal Conference of Sri Lanka, including the Maldives
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Ecclesiastical Province of Colombo Episcopal Conference of Thailand
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bangkok Ecclesiastical Province of Thare and Nonseng Episcopal Conference of Vietnam
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Episcopal Conference of Vietnam (Hội đồng Giám mục Việt Nam), at Hồ Chí Minh City
Ecclesiastical Province of Hà Nội Ecclesiastical Province of Huế Ecclesiastical Province of Hồ Chí Minh City Exempt without conference
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Episcopal Conference of Taiwan (officially Chinese Regional Bishops Conference)
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Ecclesiastical Province of Taipei, covering Taiwan Episcopal Conference of China (PR, including Hong Kong; not including Taiwan)
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Map of (Roman-rite) Catholic Dioceses in PRC as of February 2024 Exempt, each directly subject to the Holy See, mainly missionary Apostolic prefectures ; many are truly vacant or under a temporary Apostolic administrator ; no Apostolic Vicariates)Ecclesiastical Province of Anking Ecclesiastical Province of Peking Ecclesiastical Province of Changsha Ecclesiastical Province of Chungking Ecclesiastical Province of Foochow Ecclesiastical Province of Canton Ecclesiastical Province of Kweyang Ecclesiastical Province of Hangchow Ecclesiastical Province of Hankow Ecclesiastical Province of Tsinan Ecclesiastical Province of Kaifeng Ecclesiastical Province of Kunming Ecclesiastical Province of Lanchow Ecclesiastical Province of Nanchang Ecclesiastical Province of Nanking Ecclesiastical Province of Nanning Ecclesiastical Province of Mukden Ecclesiastical Province of Hohhot Ecclesiastical Province of Taiyuan Ecclesiastical Province of Sian Episcopal Conference of Japan
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Exempt - the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (for former Anglicans in Australia and Japan) has its see in Australia. Ecclesiastical Province of Nagasaki Ecclesiastical Province of Osaka Ecclesiastical Province of Tokyo Episcopal Conference of Korea (North and South)
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exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Kwanju (Gwangju), in South Korea Ecclesiastical Province of Seoul, including North Korea Ecclesiastical Province of Taegu, in South Korea Oceania (Latin and Eastern Churches)
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Episcopal Conference of Australia
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Exempt (arch)dioceses (immediately subject to Rome, no province) Ecclesiastical Province of Adelaide Ecclesiastical Province of Brisbane, covering Queensland Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne, covering Victoria state Ecclesiastical Province of Perth, covering Western Australia Ecclesiastical Province of Sydney, covering most of New South Wales Other Eastern eparchies (dioceses) Episcopal Conference of New Zealand
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See Australia for the Chaldean Catholic, Melkite and Ukrainian Catholic dioceses competent for both countries, with sees in Sydney, Sydney viz. Melbourne
cfr. infra Episcopal Conference of the [South] Pacific for three New Zealand island dependencies, notably the diocese of Raratonga (on the Cook Islands , also covering Niue ) and the Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau , both suffragans of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Suva Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Wellington Episcopal Conference of the Pacific
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An exempt diocese, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See Note: The United States Minor Outlying Islands (U.S. Minor Islands)—such as Wake, Midway, and Johnston, which are territories of USA—are administered by the US Military Ordinariate (the Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States ), in Washington, D.C.
Note: The Diocese of Honolulu , on and for Hawaii, is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of San Francisco (California, USA)
Ecclesiastical Province of Agaña Ecclesiastical Province of Nouméa Ecclesiastical Province of Papeete This province covers all of French Polynesia (French overseas collectivity) and the Pitcairn Islands (UK).
Ecclesiastical Province of Samoa-Apia Ecclesiastical Province of Suva Episcopal Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
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Ecclesiastical Province of Madang Ecclesiastical Province of Mount Hagen Ecclesiastical Province of Port Moresby Ecclesiastical Province of Rabaul Ecclesiastical Province of Honaira, covering the Solomon Islands Africa (Latin and Eastern Churches)
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Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (S.E.C.A.M.)
Most national churches are also part of an episcopal conference and a regional (subcontinental) group of those, so we list them geographically:
Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Egypt
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Latin Church Alexandrian Rite (Coptic originally means Egyptian)
Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria , actually in Cairo, Metropolitan Archbishop of the church's only ecclesiastical province sui juris covering Egypt (which has no other Catholic province), with these suffragan Eparchies:
Byzantine Rite
Antiochian Rite
Armenian Rite
Syro-Oriental Rite
Mostly exempt dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Alger, covering most of Algeria
Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (R.E.C.O.W.A.)
The West African subcontinent was previously covered by two language-distinct super-conferences:
Episcopal Conference of Nigeria
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Exempt dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Abuja Ecclesiastical Province of Benin City Ecclesiastical Province of Calabar Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province of Jos Ecclesiastical Province of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos Ecclesiastical Province of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province of Owerri Episcopal Conference of Gambia and Sierra Leone
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Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Freetown, covering Sierra Leone Episcopal Conference of Ghana
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Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Accra Ecclesiastical Province of Cape Coast Ecclesiastical Province of Kumasi Ecclesiastical Province of Tamale Episcopal Conference of Liberia
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Ecclesiastical Province of Monrovia Ecclesiastical Conference of Benin
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Ecclesiastical Province of Cotonou Ecclesiastical Province of Parakou Ecclesiastical Conference of Burkina Faso and Niger
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bobo-Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso Ecclesiastical Province of Koupéla, in Burkina Faso Ecclesiastical Province of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso Ecclesiastical Province of Niamey, covering Niger Episcopal Conference of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
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Ecclesiastical Province of Abidjan Ecclesiastical Province of Bouaké Ecclesiastical Province of Gagnoa Ecclesiastical Province of Korhogo Episcopal Conference of Guinea
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Ecclesiastical Province of Conakry, covering Guinea Episcopal Conference of Mali
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bamako, covering Mali Episcopal Conference of Togo
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Ecclesiastical Province of Lomé, covering Togo Episcopal Conference of Senegal, Cape Verde, Mauritania and Guinée-Bissau
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Ecclesiastical Province of Dakar, covering Senegal neither of the above West African super-conferences however covered the dioceses, all directly subject to the Holy See, in three countries formerly under Portuguese or (Franco-)Spanish colonial administration, now participating in the same ecclesiastical conference as ex-French Senegal
two exempt members (no ecclesiastical province, directly subject to the Holy See) of the Episcopal conference of the Arab region Latin bishops, see Asia: Episcopal Conference of Ethiopia and Eritrea
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Neither country has or is part of any Latin Church province.
Eritrea has no Latin hierarchy, even the post of Apostolic nuncio is held by the nuncio to Sudan in Khartoum.Ethiopia has the following exempt apostolic vicariates and apostolic prefecture , each immediately subject to the Holy See
Eastern Alexandrian rite particular churches (Metropolitanates sui juris)
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However, each country has an Alexandrian rite (like the Egyptian Copts, but in Geez language) Metropolitan particular church 'sui iuris', whose episcopates fully parttake in the joint Episcopal Conference, yet also has its own council of bishops
Ecclesiastical Province of Addis Abeba (Ethiopia , sui iuris) Ecclesiastical Province of Asmara (Eritrea , sui iuris) Episcopal Conference of Kenya
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Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Kisumu Ecclesiastical Province of Mombasa Ecclesiastical Province of Nairobi Ecclesiastical Province of Nyeri Episcopal Conference of Malawi
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Ecclesiastical Province of Blantyre Ecclesiastical Province of Lilongwe Episcopal Conference of Sudan & South Sudan
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Ecclesiastical Province of Juba, covering the Latin Church in South Sudan Ecclesiastical Province of Khartoum, covering the Latin Church in Sudan Eastern church jurisdictions, covering both countries For the Armenian Catholics in Sudan, see Egypt
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Iskanderiya (Alexandria, a suffragan of the Patriarch of Cilicia)Episcopal Conference of Tanzania
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Ecclesiastical Province of Arusha Ecclesiastical Province of Dar-es-Salaam Ecclesiastical Province of Dodoma Ecclesiastical Province of Mbeya Ecclesiastical Province of Mwanza Ecclesiastical Province of Songea Ecclesiastical Province of Tabora Episcopal Conference of Uganda
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Exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Gulu Ecclesiastical Province of Kampala Ecclesiastical Province of Mbarara Ecclesiastical Province of Tororo Episcopal Conference of Zambia
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Ecclesiastical Province of Kasama Ecclesiastical Province of Lusaka (?only Latin dioceses)
This subcontinent is still covered by two distinct super-conferences:
Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa, covering the three countries formerly under Belgian colonial administration: Congo, Burundi and Rwanda Ecclesiastical Conference of Burundi
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bujumbura Ecclesiastical Province of Gitega Episcopal Conference of the Congo (-Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ex-Zaire)
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu Ecclesiastical Province of Kananga Ecclesiastical Province of Kinshasa Ecclesiastical Province of Kisangani Ecclesiastical Province of Lubumbashi Ecclesiastical Province of Mbandaka-Bikoro Episcopal Conference of Rwanda
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Ecclesiastical Province of Kigali, covering Rwanda Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kigali
Association of Episcopal Conferences of the Central Africa Region, covering countries formerly under French or Spanish colonial administration Ecclesiastical Conference of Cameroon
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province of Bertoua Ecclesiastical Province of Douala Ecclesiastical Province of Garoua Ecclesiastical Province of Yaoundé Episcopal Conference of the Central African Republic
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bangui, covering the Central African republic Episcopal Conference of Chad
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Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of N'Djamena Episcopal Conference of the Congo (Brazzaville)
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Ecclesiastical Province of Brazzaville Ecclesiastical Province of Owando Ecclesiastical Province of Pointe-Noire Episcopal Conference of Equatorial Guinea
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Ecclesiastical Province of Malabo Episcopal Conference of Gabon
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Exempt missionary circonscription, directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Libreville, covering the rest of Gabon Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé e Principe
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Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical Province of Huambo Ecclesiastical Province of Luanda Ecclesiastical Province of Lubango Ecclesiastical Province of Malanje Ecclesiastical Province of Saurímo Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean (minor African East coast island states)
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Only exempt dioceses, each for a whole country (or two) without national conference, directly subject to the Holy See Episcopal Conference of Lesotho
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Ecclesiastical Province of Maseru Episcopal Conference of Madagascar
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Ecclesiastical Province of Antananarivo Ecclesiastical Province of Antsiranana Ecclesiastical Province of Toamasina Ecclesiastical Province of Fianarantsoa Ecclesiastical Province of Toliara Episcopal Conference of Mozambique
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Ecclesiastical Province of Beira Ecclesiastical Province of Maputo Ecclesiastical Province of Nampula Episcopal Conference of Namibia
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Ecclesiastical Province of Windhoek, covering Namibia Episcopal Conference of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland
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covers the dioceses in the republic of South Africa , and two neighbouring countries whose only dioceses belong to its provinces Botswana and Swaziland
The wider Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (I.M.B.I.S.A.) also includes Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Bloemfontein Ecclesiastical Province of Cape Town Ecclesiastical Province of Durban Ecclesiastical Province of Johannesburg Ecclesiastical Province of Pretoria Episcopal Conference of Zimbabwe
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Ecclesiastical Province of Bulawayo Ecclesiastical Province of Harare
The 23 Eastern Catholic Churches retain many Orthodox traditions, even in the hierarchic terminology, such as calling dioceses Eparchies and archdioceses Archeparchies.
Their respective diocesan structures overlap with and are partially parallel to each other, to the Latin Catholic church and to Orthodox churches, often 'sharing' a see. In addition, exempt, 'mixed' ordinariates for the Eastern churches without dioceses of their own are established in a few (European and Latin American) countries, directly subject to the Holy See.
We present them grouped per ancient rite, or liturgical tradition. Following the name of each Church is given the nature of their ecclesiastical polity ; for instance, whether it is headed by a Patriarch, a Major Archbishop, a Metropolitan Archbishop, or has no unified structure and is instead composed of jurisdictions each individually subject to the Holy See.
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Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Argentina , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Buenos Aires
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Brazil , for all Eastern Churches, cumulated with varying Latin Church Metropolitan sees
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Paris
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Poland , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Warszaw
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Spain , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of Madrid
Exempt, joint Ordinariates or Administrations for the Byzantine Rites faithful
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In the Arab World and Africa, the church has dioceses in:
Throughout the rest of the world, the Melkite Catholic church has dioceses and exarchates for its diaspora in:
Furthermore, one of the Ordinaries is appointed Apostolic visitor for the countries without proper ordinariates in Western Europe , while in some countries the Melkite diaspora is served pastorally by an Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful .
an ecclesiastical province sui juris , covering Romania Exempt, i.e. Immediately subject to the Holy See'
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See Ukrainian provinces and Metropolitan dependencies Polish province European dioceses, immediately dependent on the Major Archbishop, not part of his province Overseas provinces and Metropolitan dependencies Overseas Eparchies, suffragans of Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishops
A single ecclesiastical province sui juris
The more general adjective "Byzantine" is often used instead of "Ruthenian" in North America although its origins are, as the name suggests, in Ruthenia , (now part of Slovakia and Ukraine) its sole exempt diocese, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, covers the Czech Republic while all other dioceses depend from the US-based Metropolitan head of the church sole ecclesiastical province, the Metropolitanate sui juris , entirely in the United States - Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh further directly dependent on the Metropolitan
Synod: Council of the Slovak Church
entirely exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See:
entirely exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See:
entirely exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See:
Alexandrian Rite churches
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A single ecclesiastical province sui juris , covering Ethiopia (Synod styled Council of the Ethiopian Church)
A single ecclesiastical province sui juris , covering all and only Eritrea , which has no Latin Church diocese
Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See : Immediately subject to the Patriarch
Subject to the Synod in Matters of Liturgical and Particular Law, Otherwise Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See and its Roman Congregation for the Eastern Churches : Suffragan Eparchies in the ecclesiastical provinces of Latin Metropolitan Archbishops; both in South America : (Arch)eparchies immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province Eparchies suffragan to a Latin Metropolitan
Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church
Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See Patriarchal ecclesiastical province Patriarchal exarchates Other (arch)dioceses etc. (none Metropolitan), directly subject to the Patriarch (but not part of his province) Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad , Archeparchy for central Iraq
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul , Archeparchy for northern Iraq
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo , Archeparchy for part of Syria (cfr. infra)
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Hassaké–Nisibi , Archeparchy for part of Syria (cfr. infra)
Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Cairo , for Egypt
Syriac Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Sudan and South Sudan , no proper see, but vested in the Cairo Eparch as Protosynkellos for Sudan and South Sudan
Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark , with cathedral see at Bayonne, New Jersey , for the United Statesnominal Metropolitans, without suffragans, both in Syria
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See: Ecclesiastical Province of Trivandrum Ecclesiastical Province of Tiruvalla Immediately subject to the Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church:
Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See Patriarchal ecclesiastical province of Cilicia (named after Ancient Cilicia , the part of Asia Minor (modern Turkey's Anatolia) where its see was originally) other eparchies, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Aleppo , in and for part of Syria
Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Istanbul , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Istanbul (the former Constantinople), in and for Turkey
Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Baghdad , in and for Iraq
Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Lviv , in and for (part of) Ukraine
Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Damascus , Exarchate with cathedral see in Damascus , in and for part of Syria
Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Amman , Exarchate with cathedral see in Jerusalem , in the Holy Land (Israel/ Palestine ), also for Jordan
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires , Eparchy with cathedral see in Buenos Aires , in and for Argentina
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale , Eparchy with cathedral see in Brooklyn, New York , in the United States, also for Canada
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris , Eparchy with cathedral see in Paris , in and for France
Chaldean Catholic Catholicos-Patriarch of Babylon
the patriarchal proper Metropolitanate Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baghdad , with its three suffragans Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Alquoch , Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Amadiya , Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aqra ,
Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kirkuk (Iraq), Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tehran (Iran), Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Urmya with its sole suffragan Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Salmas ,
Archdioceses of Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Ahwaz , Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Basra (Iraq), Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Diyarbakir , Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil , Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (Iraq)
Eparchies of Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aleppo (Syria), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Beirut (Lebanon), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Cairo (Egypt), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter The Apostle of San Diego (US), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit (US), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto (Canada), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney (Australia), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Sulaimaniya , Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Zaku
Territories dependent on the Patriarch: Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Jerusalem , Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Jordan
Ecclesiastical Province of Eranakulam - Angamaly Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Mississauga , for Canada
St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chicago , with cathedral see at Bellwood, Illinois , for the USA; also Syro-Malabar Apostolic visitator in Canada
Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Great Britain , with cathedral see at Preston, Lancashire, England; for England, Scotland & Wales
Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne , for Australia, with cathedral see at Melbourne , Victoria state; also Syro-Malabar Apostolic visitator in New ZealandEcclesiastical Province of Changanassery Ecclesiastical Province of Tellicherry Ecclesiastical Province of Thrissur Archdiocese of Kottayam Syro-Malabar eparchies, suffragans of Roman Catholic (Latin Church ) Indian Metropolitan archbishops, hence part of their mixed-rite provinces under Agra
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under Raipur
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References
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^ "Dioceses by Type".
^ Beal, J.P, J.A. Coriden, and T. Green (2000). New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law . Paulist. p. 571. {{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Beal, John P.; Coriden, James A.; Green, Thomas J. (2000). New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law . Paulist Press. ISBN 9780809140664 . Retrieved 18 Jun 2015 .
^ "Hispanic Ministry Network Region XI Leaders". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved 14 Apr 2012 .
^ "Bishops and Dioceses". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved 23 March 2013 .
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