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List of Catholic dioceses

As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions worldwide, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,250 dioceses. It also includes various other jurisdictions such as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies, and missions sui juris.

In addition, there are 2,100 titular sees, encompassing bishoprics, archbishoprics, and metropolitanates.

This structural list outlines how each diocese is organized within its ecclesiastical province, under the framework of episcopal conferences, grouped by continent or region.

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Types of Catholic dioceses

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

Additional types, exclusively for the Eastern Churches, Ordinariate Use and Extraordinary Form

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.

  • 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 Latin 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)

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

Exempt dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See:
Ecclesiastical Province of Salzburg
Ecclesiastical Province of Vienna

Episcopal Conference of Belgium

Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
  • Military Ordinariate of Belgium (1986), 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)

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

(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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Swiss Bishops Conference

only exempt dioceses, each immediately subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of Albania

Ecclesiastical Province of Shkodër-Pult (Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Tiranë-Durrës (mixed Churches)

Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius - for North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia

North Macedonia has
Montenegro has no national level, but two Latin dioceses
  • the 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–Makarska
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

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

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

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

Episcopal Conference of 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

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

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)

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Riga, covering Latvia

Episcopal Conference of Lithuania

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

Episcopal Conference of 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

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

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

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

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

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)

Episcopal Conference of 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

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

Ecclesiastical province of San José de Costa Rica

Episcopal Conference of El Salvador

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

Episcopal Conference of 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

Ecclesiastical province of Tegucigalpa, covering Honduras

Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua

Ecclesiastical province of Managua, covering Nicaragua

Episcopal Conference of 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)

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

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

Episcopal Conference of 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

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

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. 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)

Exempt diocese, directly subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of 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

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 Chapecó
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 Joinville
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 José do Rio Preto
* Metropolitan Archdiocese of São José do Rio Preto
** Diocese of Barretos
** Diocese of Catanduva
** Diocese of Jales
** Diocese of Votuporanga
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

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

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

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

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

Episcopal Conference of 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

Ecclesiastical province of Montevideo

Episcopal Conference of 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)

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

No ecclesiastical province, the Latin Church has only the exempt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan (1629), 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

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

Episcopal Conference of 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

Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bangladesh

Ecclesiastical Province of Dhaka
Ecclesiastical Province of Chittagong

Episcopal Conference of Myanmar

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

Episcopal Conference of East Timor

Episcopal Conference of India, including Bhutan

The Episcopal Conference of India includes dioceses in the country of Bhutan. Includes 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 Latin Catholic Metropolitan Archbishops in their mixed-rite ecclesiastical provinces, are italicized..

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 Calicut (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 Ecclesiastical Province of Faridabad
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Kalyan
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Shamshabad
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Tellicherry
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Thrissur
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Ujjain
Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam
Syro-Malankara Ecclesiastical Province of Trivandrum
Syro-Malankara Ecclesiastical Province of Tiruvalla

Episcopal Conference of 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

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

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

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

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Colombo

Episcopal Conference of Thailand

Ecclesiastical Province of Bangkok
Ecclesiastical Province of Thare and Nonseng

Episcopal Conference of 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)

Ecclesiastical Province of Taipei, covering Taiwan

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

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

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)

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

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 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

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

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

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
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

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

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

Episcopal Conference of 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

Ecclesiastical Province of Monrovia

Ecclesiastical Conference of Benin

Ecclesiastical Province of Cotonou
Ecclesiastical Province of Parakou

Ecclesiastical Conference of 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 Ivory Coast

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

Episcopal Conference of Guinea

Ecclesiastical Province of Conakry, covering Guinea

Episcopal Conference of Mali

Ecclesiastical Province of Bamako, covering Mali

Episcopal Conference of Togo

Ecclesiastical Province of Lomé, covering Togo

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

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

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

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Blantyre
Ecclesiastical Province of Lilongwe

Episcopal Conference of Sudan & 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

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

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

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Bujumbura
Ecclesiastical Province of Gitega

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

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Kigali, covering Rwanda

Ecclesiastical Conference of 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

Ecclesiastical Province of Bangui, covering the Central African republic

Episcopal Conference of Chad

Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See

Ecclesiastical Province of N'Djamena

Episcopal Conference of the Congo (Brazzaville)

Ecclesiastical Province of Brazzaville

Ecclesiastical Province of Owando

Ecclesiastical Province of Pointe-Noire

Episcopal Conference of Equatorial Guinea

Ecclesiastical Province of Malabo

Episcopal Conference of 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

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)

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

Episcopal Conference of Lesotho

Ecclesiastical Province of Maseru

Episcopal Conference of 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

Ecclesiastical Province of Beira

Ecclesiastical Province of Maputo

Ecclesiastical Province of Nampula

Episcopal Conference of Namibia

Ecclesiastical Province of Windhoek, covering Namibia

Episcopal Conference of South Africa, Botswana and Eswatini

covers the dioceses in the republic of South Africa, and two neighbouring countries whose only dioceses belong to its provinces Botswana and Eswatini

  • 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

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 Church, 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 , 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 dioceses These 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 , 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)

  • Only the Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania, with a pro-cathedral see at Vlorë, which is suffragan to the Ecclesiastical Province of the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of Tiranë–Durrës

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Changanassery

Ecclesiastical Province of Faridabad

Ecclesiastical Province of Kalyan

Ecclesiastical Province of Shamshabad

Ecclesiastical Province of Tellicherry

Ecclesiastical Province of Thrissur

Ecclesiastical Province of Ujjain

Archdiocese of Kottayam

Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See

Other and various types of Catholic sees and jurisdictions

See also

Eastern churches

References

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