List of Catholic dioceses (structured view) explained

As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 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.

Types of Catholic dioceses

This refers to Catholic dioceses in the world, of all Latin or Eastern churches, .[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)

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.

Universal or transcontinental exempt dioceses (not counting minor dependencies)

European exempt dioceses

Asian exempt dioceses

New World exempt dioceses

African exempt dioceses

Europe (Latin and Eastern Churches)

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

Exempt (arch)dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See, each for a whole small country

Episcopal Conference of Austria

See also: List of Catholic dioceses in 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

See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Belgium.

Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Mechelen-Brussels, covering Belgium

Episcopal Conference of England and Wales (parts of the UK)

See also: Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and List of Catholic dioceses in Great Britain.

also comprises - without separate dioceses - three European insular crown dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey
Exempt dioceses
vested in the exempt, South American Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands
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

See also: List of Catholic dioceses in France. (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
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

See also: List of Catholic 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

See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Ireland.

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Rome
  • See:
    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

    Ecclesiastical Province of Malta

    Episcopal Conference of the Netherlands

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Portugal.

    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

    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)

    See also: List 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

    Episcopal Conference of Spain (incl. African territories) and Andorra

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Spain.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Switzerland.

    Swiss Bishops Conference

    only exempt dioceses, each immediately subject to the Holy See

    Episcopal Conference of Albania

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in 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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Serbia.

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Montenegro.

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Macedonia.

    The Republic of Macedonia has
    Montenegro has no national level, but two Latin dioceses
    Ecclesiastical 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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Belarus.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    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 Herzegovina

    Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Bulgaria.

    Bulgaria has no ecclesiastical province, only exempt Ordinariates, immediately subject to the Holy See, of two Churches:

    Episcopal Conference of Croatia

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Croatia.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic.

    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

    See also: List of 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)

    See also: List of 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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Latvia.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Riga, covering Latvia

    Episcopal Conference of Lithuania

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Lithuania.

    Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See:
    Ecclesiastical Province of Vilnius
    Ecclesiastical Province of Kaunas

    Episcopal Conference of Poland

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Poland.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses 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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Russia.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Slovakia.

    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)

    Episcopal Conference of Slovenia

    See also: Catholic Church in Slovenia.

    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 Herzegovina

    Episcopal Conference of Ukraine

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine.

    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)

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in North America.

    Episcopal Conference of Canada

    See also: List 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

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Mexico.

    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

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Costa Rica.

    Ecclesiastical province of San José de Costa Rica

    Episcopal Conference of El Salvador

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in El Salvador.

    Exempt military ordinariate, immediately subject to the Holy See,
    Ecclesiastical province of San Salvador, covering El Salvador

    Episcopal Conference of Guatemala

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Guatemala.

    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

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Honduras.

    Ecclesiastical province of Tegucigalpa, covering Honduras

    Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Nicaragua.

    Ecclesiastical province of Managua, covering Nicaragua

    Episcopal Conference of Panama

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Panama.

    Exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See:
    Ecclesiastical province of Panamá, covering Panama

    Episcopal Conference of the (Lesser) Antilles (and Belize and Guyanas)

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in the Caribbean.

    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.

    Episcopal Conference of Cuba

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Cuba.

    Ecclesiastical province of (San Cristóbal de) la Habana
    Ecclesiastical province of Camagüey
    Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Cuba

    Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in the Dominican Republic.

    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

    See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Haiti.

    Ecclesiastical province of Cap-Haïtien
    Ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince

    Episcopal Conference of Puerto Rico

    Ecclesiastical province of San Juan de Puerto Rico, covering the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

    Episcopal Conference of the United States of America

    See also: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

    Exempt, immediately subject to the holy See and not part of a Bishops' Region

    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 XVThis 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 ChurchEcclesiastical Province of Philadelphia
    Syro-Oriental Rites
  • Chaldean Catholic Church
    • Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

    South America (Latin and Eastern Churches)

    Exempt diocese, directly subject to the Holy See

    Episcopal Conference of Argentina

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Argentina.

    (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

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in 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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Chile.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Colombia.

    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

    See also: Catholic Church in Ecuador.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Paraguay.

    exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See:
    Ecclesiastical province of Asunción

    Episcopal Conference of Peru

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Peru.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Uruguay.

    Ecclesiastical province of Montevideo

    Episcopal Conference of Venezuela

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Venezuela.

    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)

    Exempt dioceses or mission sui juris in Asian countries without episcopal conferences or ecclesiastical provinces

    exempt, nation-covering diocesan circonscriptions, often not called after the see, each immediately subject to the Holy See
    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)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in the Holy Land and Cyprus.

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Lebanon.

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Iraq.

    See also: Catholic Church in Syria.

    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:
    in Africa: see there (for Egypt, Djibouti and Somalia)

    Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Egypt

    see Africa

    Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (Palestine/Israel & Jordan)

    Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Iraq

    Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Lebanon

    Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in Syria

    Episcopal Conference of Iran

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Iran.

    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:

    Episcopal Conference of Kazakhstan

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Central Asia.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Mary Most Holy in Astana, covering all Kazakhstan

    Episcopal Conference of Turkey

    See also: Catholic Church 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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Bangladesh.

    Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bangladesh

    Ecclesiastical Province of Dhaka
    Ecclesiastical Province of Chittagong

    Episcopal Conference of Burma (Myanmar)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Myanmar.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Mandalay
    Ecclesiastical Province of Taunggyi
    Ecclesiastical Province of Yangon (Rangoon)

    Episcopal Conference of East Timor

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in East Timor.

    Episcopal Conference of India, including Bhutan

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in India.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Indonesia.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Laos and Cambodia.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Pakistan.

    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

    See also: Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines and List of Catholic dioceses in the Philippines.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Colombo

    Episcopal Conference of Thailand

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Thailand.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Bangkok
    Ecclesiastical Province of Thare and Nonseng

    Episcopal Conference of Vietnam

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Vietnam.

    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

    Episcopal Conference of Taiwan (officially Chinese Regional Bishops Conference)

    See also: Catholic Church in Taiwan.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Taipei, covering Taiwan

    Episcopal Conference of China (PR, including Hong Kong; not including Taiwan)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in China.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Japan.

    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)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Korea.

    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)

    Episcopal Conference of Australia

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Australia.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in New Zealand. See under for the Chaldean Catholic, Melkite and Ukrainian Catholic dioceses competent for both countries, with sees in Sydney, Melbourne.

    Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See

    Ecclesiastical Province of Wellington

    Episcopal Conference of the Pacific

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in South Pacific Conference states.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Agaña

    Ecclesiastical Province of Nouméa
    Ecclesiastical Province of PapeeteThis 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

    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)

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Egypt.

    Latin Church
    Alexandrian Rite (Coptic originally means Egyptian):
    Byzantine Rite:
    Antiochian Rite:
    Armenian Rite:
    Syro-Oriental Rite:
    Mostly exempt dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Morocco, Mauretania and Western Sahara.

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Libya.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Alger, covering most of Algeria

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in 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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Nigeria.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Gambia and Sierra Leone.

    Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See:
    Ecclesiastical Province of Freetown, covering Sierra Leone

    Episcopal Conference of Ghana

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Ghana.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Liberia.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Monrovia

    Ecclesiastical Conference of Benin

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Benin.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Cotonou
    Ecclesiastical Province of Parakou

    Ecclesiastical Conference of Burkina Faso and Niger

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Burkina Faso and Niger.

    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)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Ivory Coast.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Abidjan
    Ecclesiastical Province of Bouaké
    Ecclesiastical Province of Gagnoa
    Ecclesiastical Province of Korhogo

    Episcopal Conference of Guinea

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Guinea.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Conakry, covering Guinea

    Episcopal Conference of Mali

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Mali.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Bamako, covering Mali

    Episcopal Conference of Togo

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Togo.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Lomé, covering Togo

    Episcopal Conference of Senegal, Cape Verde, Mauritania and Guinée-Bissau

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Senegal.

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Guinea-Bissau.

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Cape Verde.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

    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)

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Kenya.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Malawi.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Blantyre
    Ecclesiastical Province of Lilongwe

    Episcopal Conference of Sudan & South Sudan

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Sudan and South Sudan.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Tanzania.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Uganda.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Zambia.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Kasama
    Ecclesiastical Province of Lusaka

    (?only Latin dioceses)This subcontinent is still covered by two distinct super-conferences:

    Ecclesiastical Conference of Burundi

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Burundi.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Bujumbura
    Ecclesiastical Province of Gitega

    Episcopal Conference of the Congo (-Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ex-Zaire)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Rwanda.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Kigali, covering Rwanda

    Ecclesiastical Conference of Cameroon

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Cameroon.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in the Central African Republic.

    Ecclesiastical Province of Bangui, covering the Central African republic

    Episcopal Conference of Chad

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Chad.

    Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See

    Ecclesiastical Province of N'Djamena

    Episcopal Conference of the Congo (Brazzaville)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in the Republic of the Congo. Ecclesiastical Province of Brazzaville

    Ecclesiastical Province of Owando

    Ecclesiastical Province of Pointe-Noire

    Episcopal Conference of Equatorial Guinea

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Equatorial Guinea. Ecclesiastical Province of Malabo

    Episcopal Conference of Gabon

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Gabon.

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe. 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)

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Indian Ocean Episcopal Conference.

    Only exempt dioceses, each for a whole country (or two) without national conference, directly subject to the Holy See

    Episcopal Conference of Lesotho

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Lesotho. Ecclesiastical Province of Maseru

    Episcopal Conference of Madagascar

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Madagascar. Ecclesiastical Province of Antananarivo

    Ecclesiastical Province of Antsiranana

    Ecclesiastical Province of Toamasina

    Ecclesiastical Province of Fianarantsoa

    Ecclesiastical Province of Toliara

    Episcopal Conference of Mozambique

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Mozambique. Ecclesiastical Province of Beira

    Ecclesiastical Province of Maputo

    Ecclesiastical Province of Nampula

    Episcopal Conference of Namibia

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Namibia. Ecclesiastical Province of Windhoek, covering Namibia

    Episcopal Conference of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland. covers the dioceses in the republic of South Africa, and two neighbouring countries whose only dioceses belong to its provinces Botswana and Swaziland

    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

    See also: List of Catholic dioceses in Zimbabwe. Ecclesiastical Province of Bulawayo

    Ecclesiastical Province of Harare

    Eastern Catholic Churches by Rite

    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.

    They are presented 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.

    Exempt, joint ordinariates for all the Eastern faithful

    Byzantine Rite churches

    Exempt, joint Ordinariates or Administrations for the Byzantine Rites faithful

    (Greek-)Melkite Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

    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.

    Romanian Greek Catholic Church (Major Archiepiscopal)

    An ecclesiastical province Latin: sui juris, covering Romania:

    Exempt, i.e. Immediately subject to the Holy See

    Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Major Archiepiscopal)

    Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See

    Ukrainian provinces and Metropolitan dependencies

    Polish province

    European diocesesThese eparchies are immediately dependent on the Major Archbishop, not part of his province:

    Overseas provinces and Metropolitan dependencies

    Overseas Eparchies, suffragans of Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishops

    Hungarian Greek Catholic Church (Metropolitan)

    A single ecclesiastical province sui juris

    Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (Metropolitan)

    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:

    There is a sole ecclesiastical province, the Metropolitanate Latin: sui juris, entirely within the United Statesthe Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh:

    A further directly dependent on the Metropolitan:

    Slovak Greek Catholic Church (Metropolitan)

    The Synod is the Council of the Slovak Church

    Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia (no unified structure)

    Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (no unified structure)

    All these are entirely exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See:

    Albanian Greek Catholic Church (Apostolic Administration)

    Belarusian Greek Catholic Church (Apostolic Visitation)

    Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church (Episcopal)

    Greek Byzantine Catholic Church (no unified structure)

    entirely exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See:

    Macedonian Greek Catholic Church (Episcopal)

    Russian Greek Catholic Church (no current formalised structure)

    entirely exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See:

    Alexandrian Rite churches

    Coptic Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

    Ethiopian Catholic Church (Metropolitan)

    A single ecclesiastical province sui juris, covering Ethiopia (Synod styled Council of the Ethiopian Church)

    Eritrean Catholic Church (Metropolitan)

    A single ecclesiastical province sui juris, covering all and only Eritrea, which has no Latin Church diocese

    West Syriac/Syro-Antiochene Rite churches

    Maronite Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

    Immediately subject to the Patriarch:

    Subject to the Synod, partly exempt

    The following are subject to the Synod in matters of Liturgical and Particular Law; otherwise they are 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 eparchies are in South America:

    Eparchies suffragan to a Latin Metropolitan

    Syriac Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

    Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See

    Patriarchal ecclesiastical province

    Patriarchal exarchates

    Other dioceses and archdioceses

    None of these are Metropolitan; they are directly subject to the Patriarch (but not part of his province).

    Nominal Metropolitans

    These are without suffragans. Both are in Syria:

    Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (Major Archiepiscopal)

    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

    Armenian Rite: Armenian Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

    Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See

    Patriarchal ecclesiastical province of Cilicia

    The province was named after Ancient Cilicia, the part of Asia Minor (modern Turkey's Anatolia) where its see was originally located.

    Other eparchies

    These eparchies are immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province.

    East Syriac / Syro-Oriental Rite churches

    Chaldean Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

    Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Major Archiepiscopal)

    Ecclesiastical Province of EranakulamAngamaly

    Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See

    Ecclesiastical Province of Changanassery

    Ecclesiastical Province of Tellicherry

    Ecclesiastical Province of Thrissur

    Archdiocese of Kottayam

    Syro-Malabar eparchiesThese are suffragans of Roman Catholic (Latin Church) Indian Metropolitan archbishops, hence part of their mixed-rite provinces.

    Other and various types of Catholic sees and jurisdictions

    See also

    Eastern churches

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Dioceses by Type.
    2. Book: New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law . 9780809140664 . 18 Jun 2015 . Beal . John P. . Coriden . James A. . Green . Thomas J. . 2000 . Paulist Press . 571.
    3. Web site: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops . Hispanic Ministry Network Region XI Leaders. 14 Apr 2012 .
    4. Web site: Bishops and Dioceses . United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 23 March 2013.

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