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.
This map visualizes the provinces of the Catholic Church, as well as archdioceses (and other top-level entities) where provinces are not established.
This refers to Catholic dioceses in the world, of all Latin or Eastern churches, as of 5 October 2021 [ update] .[1]
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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
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Additional types, exclusively for the Eastern Churches, Ordinariate Use and Extraordinary Form
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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
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These (arch)dioceses are exempt from belonging to any ecclesiastical province , hence only the Vatican can exert the authority and coordinating functions normally falling to the Metropolitan Archbishop. They are grouped here geographically. Nevertheless, most belong to an episcopal conference , in which case the more relevant mention is in its geographical region, as exempt dioceses as such do not have specific ties with each other.
Military Ordinariates are in pastoral charge of the troops of a state, but may be vested in a Metropolitan Archbishop, typically in the national capital.
Also generally exempt are the apostolic prefectures and apostolic vicariates , which tend to be temporary missionary dioceses, expected to become part of an ecclesiastical province when promoted to regular (arch- or suffragan) bishopric.
The Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans (who left the Anglican Communion for communion with the Holy See) are allowed to use the Ordinariate Use , which is counted as a variant usage of the Roman Rite (unlike the Eastern churches' five distinct rites).
Eastern Ordinariates are in pastoral charge of all Eastern Churches, of only those of Byzantine Rite or even just of the Armenian Rite, in one or more states of various Catholic churches without any proper diocese there, but are usually vested in a Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop, often in the capital.
Disregarded are many episcopal or archiepiscopal prelates in the Roman Curia , as their dicasteries don't constitute dioceses, although many posts there require by law or custom a bishop or an archbishop (usually titular), just as the Vatican's diplomatic posts in nearly every national capital.
Universal or transcontinental exempt dioceses (not counting minor dependencies)
European exempt dioceses
in Italy :
some (arch)bishoprics under the papal Metropolitan see at Rome, including
Military Ordinariate of Italy , cumulated with varying sees
Archdiocese of Lucca
Territorial Abbey of Montecassino , whose cathedral see is a minor basilica
Territorial Abbacy of Monte Oliveto Maggiore , with cathedral see in Siena, seat of the abbot-general of the Olivetans (a Benedictine congregation)
formerly the Territorial Abbey of San Paolo fuori le Mura (since 2005, just an abbey, territory incorporated into the diocese of Rome)
Territorial Abbacy of Subiaco , whose cathedral see and co-cathedral are minor basilicas
Italo-Albanese Territorial Abbacy of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata , only non-Latin Church territorial abbey: Italo-Albanese Catholic rite
Italo-Albanese Diocese of Piana degli Albanesi , with cathedral see at Palermo, on Sicily
Italo-Albanese Diocese of Lungro , with cathedral see at Lungro, near Cosenza in Calabria
in Austria :
in Belgium : Military Ordinariate of Belgium , vested in the primatial Metropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina , not vested in any see
in Bulgaria :
in Croatia :
in the Czech Republic :
in and for all Denmark : Diocese of Copenhagen , including its overseas territories Greenland and the Faroe Islands
in and for all Estonia : Apostolic Administration of Estonia (at Tallinn),
Finland , including the autonomous region of Åland : Diocese of Helsinki
in France :
in Germany
in and for all Gibraltar : Diocese of Gibraltar
in Greece :
in Hungary :
in and for all Iceland : Diocese of Reykjavík
in Kosovo :
in and for all the principality of Liechtenstein : Archdiocese of Vaduz
in Lithuania : Military Ordinariate of Lithuania
in and for all the Grand duchy of Luxemburg : Archdiocese of Luxembourg
in and for all Moldova (Moldavia): Diocese of Chişinău
in and for all the principality of Monaco : Archdiocese of Monaco
in Montenegro : Archdiocese of Bar
in the Netherlands : Military Ordinariate of the Netherlands , cumulated with varying sees
in North Macedonia : Macedonian Catholic Eparchy of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Strumica-Skopje
in Norway:
in Poland :
in Portugal : Military Ordinariate of Portugal , not vested in any see
in Romania :
in Russia (cfr. infra Eastern Europe & Asia ):
in Sweden : Diocese of Stockholm
in Serbia : Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Ruski Krstur , for Catholics of Byzantine Rite in Serbia
Military Ordinariate of Slovakia , not vested in any see
Military Ordinariate of Spain , ranking as archbishop, cumulated with varying sees
in Switzerland , all diocesan sees (joined in a national episcopal conference, without province):
in the UK :
Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe , actually only for Armenia , Georgia (country) , Russia and Ukraine
in Ukraine : Mukachevo(Munkách) ruthenian catholic eparchy
Asian exempt dioceses
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem , for all of the Holy Land (Palestine & Israel ), Jordan and Cyprus
Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo , for all of Syria
Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut , for all of Lebanon
Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia , in Kuwait City , for all of Kuwait , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia , in Abu Dhabi (UAE), for all of Oman , United Arab Emirates and Yemen
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad , covering Iraq
Apostolic Vicariate of Brunei Darussalam , covering Brunei
all dioceses in Cambodia (joined in a common episcopal conference with Laos):
in China:
in India:
in Indonesia : Military Ordinariate of Indonesia
in and for all Iran (Persia): Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (for former Anglicans in Australia and Japan ).
in Korea (North and South):
all dioceses in Laos (joined in a common episcopal conference with Cambodia):
in the Philippines :
in Pakistan : Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta
in Russia (cfr. Europe ): Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk , on Sakhalin island off eastern Siberia
in and for all Singapore : Archdiocese of Singapore
in Turkey :
New World exempt dioceses
in Argentina :
in Australia:
in Bolivia :
in Brazil :
in Canada:
in Chile :
in Colombia :
in Dominican Republic : Military Ordinariate of Dominican Republic
in Ecuador :
in El Salvador : Military Ordinariate of El Salvador
Apostolic Prefecture of Falkland Islands , for the Southern Atlantic UK overseas territories Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
in New Zealand: Military Ordinariate of New Zealand
in Paraguay :
in Peru :
in Tonga :
in the United States:
Military Ordinariate of the United States: Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter , with see in Houston, Texas (for former Anglicans in the United States and in Canada)
Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George's in Canton , bishopric for the diaspora in North America (also Canada), with cathedral see in Canton, Ohio (USA)
Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of St. Mary, Queen of Peace, of the United States of America and Canada , with cathedral see at Elmont, New York
in Venezuela :
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 , 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)
Dioceses in England and Wales
also comprises - without separate dioceses - three European insular crown dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey
Exempt dioceses
Ecclesiastical province of Birmingham
Ecclesiastical province of Cardiff, for Wales
Ecclesiastical province of Liverpool
Ecclesiastical province of Southwark
Ecclesiastical province of Westminster
Episcopal Conference of France
(The ecclesiastical provinces' corresponding administrative regions are mentioned in parentheses)
For overseas French dioceses, see under their continents and Episcopal conferences of Antilles (Central America) and Pacific (Oceania)
Exempt Latin dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See
Eastern Church dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See (exempt) or to their particular church's Patriarch or Major Archbishop
Armenian Catholic Diocese of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris , Eparchy with cathedral see in Paris , in and for France, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia , but not part of his province
Maronite Eparchy of Notre-Dame du Liban de Paris , with cathedral see Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province; also Apostolic Visitor in Western and Northern Europe of the Maronites
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris (Ukrainian Catholic Byzantine Rite Eparchy in France), with cathedral see in Paris, directly subject to the Major Archbishop, for France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France , exempt, vested in the Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Paris, for Eastern Rites without proper ordinary
Catholic dioceses of metropolitan France . Provinces are demarcated by bold lines and their sees (Metropolitan archdioceses) written in bold letters.
Ecclesiastical Province of Besançon (Franche-Comté and part of Lorraine )
Ecclesiastical Province of Bordeaux (Aquitaine )
Ecclesiastical Province of Clermont (Auvergne )
Ecclesiastical Province of Dijon (Burgundy )
Ecclesiastical Province of Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais )
Ecclesiastical Province of Lyon (Rhône-Alpes )
Ecclesiastical Province of Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur and Corsica )
Ecclesiastical Province of Montpellier (Languedoc-Roussillon )
Ecclesiastical Province of Paris (capital region Ile-de-France )
Ecclesiastical Province of Poitiers (Poitou-Charentes and Limousin )
Ecclesiastical Province of Reims (Champagne-Ardenne and Picardy )
Ecclesiastical Province of Rennes (Brittany and Pays de la Loire )
Ecclesiastical Province of Rouen (Upper - and Lower Normandy )
Eccleasiastical Province of Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées )
Eccleasiastical Province of Tours (Centre-Val de Loire region)
Episcopal Conference of Germany
Provinces and Dioceses in Germany
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Bamberg
Ecclesiastical province of Berlin
[Lower] Rhenish ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Cologne)
Upper Rhenish ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Freiburg im Breisgau)
Northern German ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Hamburg)
Ecclesiastical province of Munich and Freising, in Bavaria
Central German ecclesiastical province (aka Ecclesiastical province of Paderborn)
Episcopal Conference of Ireland, i.e. the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Catholic Dioceses in the island of Ireland. The colours indicate the ecclesiastical provinces , and the dark areas are archdioceses .
Ecclesiastical province of Armagh — covers all of Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and part of the Republic of Ireland
Ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly (Republic of Ireland)
Ecclesiastical province of Dublin (Republic of Ireland)
Ecclesiastical province of Tuam (Republic of Ireland)
Episcopal Conference of Italy, including San Marino and Vatican City
Catholic provinces in Italy
Ecclesiastical Province of Rome
See: Diocese of Rome § Suffragan sees
other exempt Italian (arch)dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See but not part of the province of Rome
Ecclesiastical Province of Venice
Ecclesiastical Province of Agrigento, on Sicily
Ecclesiastical Province of Ancona-Osimo
Ecclesiastical Province of Bari-Bitonto
Ecclesiastical Province of Benevento
Ecclesiastical Province of Bologna
Ecclesiastical Province of Cagliari, on Sardinia
Ecclesiastical Province of Campobasso-Boiano
Ecclesiastical Province of Catania, on Sicily
Ecclesiastical Province of Catanzaro-Squillace
Ecclesiastical Province of Chieti-Vasto
Ecclesiastical Province of Cosenza-Bisignano
Ecclesiastical Province of Fermo
Ecclesiastical Province of Florence
Ecclesiastical Province of Foggia-Bovino
Ecclesiastical Province of Genoa
Ecclesiastical Province of Gorizia
Ecclesiastical Province of L'Aquila
Ecclesiastical Province of Lecce
Ecclesiastical Province of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, on Sicily
Ecclesiastical Province of Milan
Ecclesiastical Province of Modena-Nonantola
Ecclesiastical Province of Naples
Ecclesiastical Province of Oristano
Ecclesiastical Province of Palermo, on Sicily
Ecclesiastical Province of Perugia-Città della Pieve
Ecclesiastical Province of Pesaro
Ecclesiastical Province of Pescara-Penne
Ecclesiastical Province of Pisa
Ecclesiastical Province of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo
Ecclesiastical Province of Ravenna-Cervia
Ecclesiastical Province of Reggio Calabria-Bova
Ecclesiastical Province of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno
Ecclesiastical Province of Sassari, on Sardinia
Ecclesiastical Province of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Ecclesiastical Province of Siracusa, on Sicily
Ecclesiastical Province of Taranto
Ecclesiastical Province of Turin
Ecclesiastical Province of Trento
Ecclesiastical Province of Udine
Ecclesiastical Province of Vercelli
Episcopal Conference of Malta
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
Portuguese Catholic dioceses map
Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Lisboa (Lisbon)
Ecclesiastical Province of Braga
Ecclesiastical Province of Évora
Episcopal Conference of Scandinavia
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)
Map of Catholic dioceses in Scotland
the Military Ordinariate for Great-Britain for UK-based troops, being joint with England & Wales, is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Glasgow
Ecclesiastical province of St Andrews and Edinburgh
Map of Dioceses of Spain
Episcopal Conference of Spain (incl. African territories) and Andorra
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: Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult
Diocese of Sapë
Diocese of Lezhë
Ecclesiastical province of Tiranë-Durrës: Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës
Diocese of Rrëshen
Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania
Ecclesiastical Province of Shkodër-Pult (Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Tiranë-Durrës (mixed Churches)
Episcopal Conference of 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
Latin Catholic dioceses in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Archdiocese of Vrhbosna
Diocese of Banja Luka
Diocese of Mostar-Duvno
Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan
Diocese of Gospić-Senj (Zavalje parish)
Diocese of Šibenik (village Uništa)
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
Ecclesiastical hierarchy and provinces in countries of Adriatic Sea: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Đakovo-Osijek, also known as Simium (Sirmio)
Ecclesiastical Province of Rijeka
Ecclesiastical Province of Split-Makarska
Ecclesiastical Province of Zagreb (Latin and Eastern Churches)
Episcopal Conference of the Czech Republic
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
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)
Map of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Hungary
Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Eger
Ecclesiastical Province of Esztergom-Budapest
Ecclesiastical Province of Kalocsa-Kecskemét
Ecclesiastical Province of Veszprém
Hungarian Catholic church Metropolitanate sui iuris
Episcopal Conference of Latvia
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
Administrative map of the Latin and Armenian Catholic hierarchies in Romania
Exempt (immediately subject to Rome, no ecclesiastical province)
Ecclesiastical Province of Bucharest (Latin)
Eastern Catholic (Byzantine Rite ) Major Archiepiscopal Romanian (Greek) Catholic Church's ecclesiastical (sole) province sui juris, covering Romania
Episcopal Conference of the Russian Federation
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)
Slovak Catholic Archeparchy of Prešov , the Metropolitan head of the particular church and its sole province's Metropolitan Archeparch (Archbishop), with suffragan Eparchies (bishoprics)
Episcopal Conference of 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
Episcopal Conference of Canada
Map of Catholic dioceses in Canada
Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Edmonton, comprising most of the province of Alberta .
Ecclesiastical province of Gatineau, comprising the western and northern parts of the province of Quebec .
Ecclesiastical province of Grouard–McLennan, comprising the northernmost parts of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia , as well as the Yukon and Northwest Territories .
Ecclesiastical province of Halifax, comprising the provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island .
Ecclesiastical province of Keewatin-Le Pas, comprising the northern parts of the provinces of Saskatchewan , Manitoba , and Ontario , and the territory of Nunavut .
Ecclesiastical province of Kingston, comprising the central portions of the Canadian province of Ontario .
Ecclesiastical province of Moncton, comprising the province of New Brunswick .
Ecclesiastical province of Montréal, in Quebec, comprising the island of Montreal and surrounding areas to the north and south.
Ecclesiastical province of Ottawa, comprising the northeastern part of the province of Ontario and a small portion of Quebec .
Ecclesiastical province of Québec, comprising only the central part of the province of Quebec , centering on the civil provincial capital Quebec City .
Ecclesiastical province of Regina, comprising the southern part of the province of Saskatchewan .
Ecclesiastical province of Rimouski, comprising the Gaspé Peninsula and the areas across the St. Lawrence River to the north, in the province of Quebec .
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Boniface, comprising the southwest part of the province of Manitoba .
Ecclesiastical province of St. John's, Newfoundland, comprising the province of Newfoundland and Labrador .
Ecclesiastical province of Sherbrooke, comprising the part of the province of Quebec to the southeast of Montreal .
Ecclesiastical province of Toronto, comprising the southwest part of the province of Ontario , with the non-contiguous Diocese of Thunder Bay in western Ontario.
Ecclesiastical province of Vancouver, comprising most of the province of British Columbia .
Ukrainian Catholic province of Winnipeg
Other Eastern church dioceses in Canada, immediately subject to their particular churches
See also USA for joint Armenian Catholic and Romanian Catholic dioceses and the personal ordinariate for former Anglicans
Episcopal Conference of Mexico
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.
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Port of Spain , on and for Trinidad and Tobago
Diocese of Bridgetown , on and for Barbados
Diocese of Willemstad , on Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles , also for Aruba , Bonaire , Saba , Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten
Diocese of Georgetown , in Guyana (in South America, formerly British)
Diocese of Paramaribo , in Suriname (in South America, formerly Dutch Guyana)
Episcopal Conference of Cuba
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
Provinces and dioceses of the Latin Church in the United States. Each color represents one of the 32 Latin-rite provinces. Not depicted are the U.S. Virgin Islands, which constitute the Diocese of St. Thomas, the sole suffragan diocese in the Province of Washington, D.C.
Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) divides the non-exempt dioceses of the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) into fourteen geographical regions—termed "Bishops' Regions" for the Latin Church provinces—and a fifteenth "region" that consists of the Eastern Catholic eparchies. These regions are not the canonical "ecclesiastical regions" described in canon 433 and 434, but are operated by an elected regional chairman. [2] However, the Ordinaries of Personal Ordinariates established under the auspices of Anglicanorum Coetibus are members of their respective Bishops’ Conferences, and the USCCB lists the exempt Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter as a part of Bishops’ Region X.
Bishops' Region I
Ecclesiastical province of Boston, comprising the states of Maine , Massachusetts , New Hampshire and Vermont .
Ecclesiastical province of Hartford, comprising the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island , as well as Fishers Island in the state of New York .
Bishops' Region II
Ecclesiastical province of New York, comprising the state of New York except for Fishers Island .
Bishops' Region III
Ecclesiastical province of Newark, comprising the state of New Jersey .
Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia, comprising the state of Pennsylvania .
Bishops' Region IV
Ecclesiastical province of Baltimore, comprising most of the state of Maryland as well as the states of Delaware , Virginia and West Virginia .
Ecclesiastical province of Washington, comprising the District of Columbia , 5 counties in southern Maryland , and the United States Virgin Islands .
Bishops' Region V
Ecclesiastical province of Louisville, comprising the states of Kentucky and Tennessee .
Ecclesiastical province of Mobile, comprising the states of Alabama and Mississippi .
Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans, comprising the state of Louisiana .
Bishops' Region VI
Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati, comprising the state of Ohio .
Ecclesiastical province of Detroit, comprising the state of Michigan .
Bishops' Region VII
Ecclesiastical province of Chicago, comprising the state of Illinois .
Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis, comprising the state of Indiana .
Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee, comprising the state of Wisconsin .
Bishops' Region VIII
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, comprising the states of Minnesota , North Dakota and South Dakota .
Bishops' Region IX
Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque, comprising the state of Iowa .
Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City, comprising the state of Kansas .
Ecclesiastical province of Omaha, comprising the state of Nebraska .
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis, comprising the state of Missouri .
Bishops' Region X
Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston, comprising the east and southeast parts of the state of Texas .
Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio, comprising the west and north of the state of Texas .
Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City, comprising the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma .
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, comprising former Anglicans throughout the United States (and Canada).
Bishops' Region XI
Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles, comprising the southern part of the state of California .
Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco, comprising the northern part of the state of California and the state of Hawaii (in Oceania ) .
Bishops' Region XII
Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage-Juneau, comprising the state of Alaska .
Ecclesiastical province of Portland in Oregon, comprising the states of Idaho , Montana and Oregon , except for the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana.
Ecclesiastical province of Seattle, comprising the state of Washington
Bishops' Region XIII
Ecclesiastical province of Denver, comprising the states of Colorado and Wyoming , as well as the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana .
Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe, comprising the states of Arizona and New Mexico .
Ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas, comprising the states of Nevada and Utah .
Bishops' Region XIV
Ecclesiastical province of Miami, comprising the state of Florida .
Ecclesiastical province of Atlanta, comprising the states of Georgia , North Carolina , and South Carolina .
Bishops' Region XV
This is not a geographical region and it does not consist of ecclesiastical provinces. Instead, it consists exclusively of US branches of various, generally Europe- or Asia-based, particular Eastern Catholic Churches. See the Eastern Catholic Churches section (below) for their particular hierarchies.
Antiochian rites
Maronite Church
Syriac Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Armenian rite
Armenian Catholic Church
Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) rites
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Romanian Catholic Church
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (only sui iuris Church headquartered in the Americas)
Ecclesiastical province of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia
Syro-Oriental Rites
Chaldean Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
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
Catholic Ecclesiastical provinces of Brazil
Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical province of Aparecida
Ecclesiastical province of Aracaju
Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará
Ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte
Ecclesiastical province of Botucatu
Ecclesiastical province of Brasília
Ecclesiastical province of Campinas
Ecclesiastical province of Campo Grande
Ecclesiastical province of Cascavel
Ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá
Ecclesiastical province of Curitiba
Ecclesiastical province of Diamantina
Ecclesiastical province of Feira de Santana
Ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis
Ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza
Ecclesiastical province of Goiânia
Ecclesiastical province of Juiz de Fora
Ecclesiastical province of Londrina
Ecclesiastical province of Maceió
Ecclesiastical province of Manaus
Ecclesiastical province of Mariana
Ecclesiastical province of Maringá
Ecclesiastical province of Montes Claros
Ecclesiastical province of Natal
Ecclesiastical province of Niterói
Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife
Ecclesiastical province of Palmas
Ecclesiastical province of Paraíba
Ecclesiastical province of Passo Fundo
Ecclesiastical province of Pelotas
Ecclesiastical province of Porto Alegre
Ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho
Ecclesiastical province of Pouso Alegre
Ecclesiastical province of Ribeirão Preto
Ecclesiastical province of Santa Maria
Ecclesiastical province of Santarem
Ecclesiastical province of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian Catholic , a Byzantine Rite )
Ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão
Ecclesiastical province of São Paulo (Roman and Byzantine rites)
Ecclesiastical province of São Salvador da Bahia
Ecclesiastical province of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Ecclesiastical province of Sorocaba
Ecclesiastical province of Teresina
Ecclesiastical province of Uberaba
Ecclesiastical province of Vitória
Ecclesiastical province of Vitória da Conquista
Episcopal Conference of Chile
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
For transcontinental Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus and the Russian Federation, see Europe (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
Apostolic Prefecture of Baku , in and for all Azerbaijan
Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan , in Bishkek , for all Kyrgyzstan
Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal , in Kathmandu , for all Nepal
Apostolic Administration of Uzbekistan , in Tashkent , for all Uzbekistan
Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia for Faithful of Byzantine Rite , in Karaganda , for Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Missions sui juris (not requiring a prelate; just an ecclesiastical superior), immediately subject to the Holy See
Episcopal conference of the Arab region Latin bishops (includes parts of North and Eastern Africa)
all Latin dioceses are exempt, i.e. no ecclesiastical province, but each immediately subject to the Holy See. They alone constitute the Episcopal conference proper, not the numerous Eastern Catholic Ordinaries, who are grouped in specific 'national' Assemblies below
in Asian Middle East:
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem , no suffragan, for all of the Holy Land (Palestine & Israel), Jordan and Cyprus
Archdiocese of Baghdad , no suffragan, for all of Iraq
Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo , for all of Syria
Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut , for all of Lebanon
Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia , in Kuwait City , for all of Kuwait , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia , in Abu Dhabi (UAE), for all of Oman , United Arab Emirates and Yemen
in Africa: see there (for Egypt, Djibouti and Somalia)
Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Egypt
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 , 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
Latin Church dioceses in Turkey
covering transcontinental Turkey , which is not comprised in any Latin ecclesiastical province
Exempt Latin dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See
Eastern (arch)dioceses, directly subject to their Patriarchs
Episcopal Conference of Burma (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
Latin Church provinces and dioceses of the Catholic church in India. The dioceses making up a province have different shades of the same colour
includes (italicized) various Eastern Church dioceses, notably Syro-Malankara (an Antiochian Rite ) and Syro-Malabar (a Syro-Oriental Rite ), either in Eastern provinces of their own particular churches , exempt or (some Syro-Malabar) as suffragans of Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishops in their mixed-rite ecclesiastical provinces
Exempt Eastern Catholic eparchies (diocese), immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Agra
Ecclesiastical Province of Bangalore (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Bhopal
Ecclesiastical Province of Bombay
Ecclesiastical Province of Calcutta (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Delhi (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Gandhinagar
Ecclesiastical Province of Goa and Daman (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Guwahati (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Hyderabad
Ecclesiastical Province of Imphal (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Madras and Mylapore (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Madurai (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Nagpur
Ecclesiastical Province of Patna (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Raipur
Ecclesiastical Province of Ranchi (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Shillong (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Thiruvananthapuram (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Verapoly (entirely Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Visakhapatnam (entirely Latin Church)
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Eranakulam - Angamaly
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Changanassery
Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Tellicherry
Syro-Malabar Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Thrissur
Ecclesiastical Province of Trivandrum
Ecclesiastical Province of Tiruvalla
Episcopal Conference of Indonesia
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
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)
Map of (Roman-rite) Catholic Dioceses in PRC as of February 2024 Exempt, each directly subject to the Holy See, mainly missionary Apostolic prefectures ; many are truly vacant or under a temporary Apostolic administrator ; no Apostolic Vicariates)
Ecclesiastical Province of Anking
Ecclesiastical Province of Peking
Ecclesiastical Province of Changsha
Ecclesiastical Province of Chungking
Ecclesiastical Province of Foochow
Ecclesiastical Province of Canton
Ecclesiastical Province of Kweyang
Ecclesiastical Province of Hangchow
Ecclesiastical Province of Hankow
Ecclesiastical Province of Tsinan
Ecclesiastical Province of Kaifeng
Ecclesiastical Province of Kunming
Ecclesiastical Province of Lanchow
Ecclesiastical Province of Nanchang
Ecclesiastical Province of Nanking
Ecclesiastical Province of Nanning
Ecclesiastical Province of Mukden
Ecclesiastical Province of Hohhot
Ecclesiastical Province of Taiyuan
Ecclesiastical Province of Sian
Episcopal Conference of Japan
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
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 § Episcopal Conference of Australia 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
An exempt diocese, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See:
For Ukrainian Catholics, see § Episcopal Conference of Australia , under Melbourne
The "United States Minor Outlying Islands" (U.S. Minor Islands), such as Wake, Midway, Johnston, which are Unincorporated Territories of USA, are administered by the Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States in Washington, D.C.
The Diocese of Honolulu (on and for Hawaii) is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco in California, U.S.
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
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)
Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria , actually in Cairo, Metropolitan Archbishop of the church's only ecclesiastical province sui juris covering Egypt (which has no other Catholic province), with these suffragan Eparchies:
Byzantine Rite
Antiochian Rite
Armenian Rite
Syro-Oriental Rite
Mostly exempt dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Alger, covering most of Algeria
Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (R.E.C.O.W.A.)
The West African subcontinent was previously covered by two language-distinct super-conferences:
Episcopal Conference of Nigeria
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 Côte d'Ivoire (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
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kigali
Association of Episcopal Conferences of the Central Africa Region, covering countries formerly under French or Spanish colonial administration
Ecclesiastical Conference of Cameroon
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 Swaziland
covers the dioceses in the republic of South Africa , and two neighbouring countries whose only dioceses belong to its provinces Botswana and Swaziland
The wider Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (I.M.B.I.S.A.) also includes Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See :
Ecclesiastical Province of Bloemfontein
Ecclesiastical Province of Cape Town
Ecclesiastical Province of Durban
Ecclesiastical Province of Johannesburg
Ecclesiastical Province of Pretoria
Episcopal Conference of Zimbabwe
Ecclesiastical Province of Bulawayo
Ecclesiastical Province of Harare
The 23 Eastern Catholic Churches retain many Orthodox traditions, even in the hierarchic terminology, such as calling dioceses Eparchies and archdioceses Archeparchies.
Their respective diocesan structures overlap with and are partially parallel to each other, to the Latin Catholic church and to Orthodox churches, often 'sharing' a see. In addition, exempt, 'mixed' ordinariates for the Eastern churches without dioceses of their own are established in a few (European and Latin American) countries, directly subject to the Holy See.
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
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Argentina , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Buenos Aires
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Brazil , for all Eastern Churches, cumulated with varying Latin Church Metropolitan sees
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Paris
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Poland , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Warszaw
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Spain , for all Eastern Churches, vested in the Latin Church Metropolitan Archbishop of Madrid
Exempt, joint Ordinariates or Administrations for the Byzantine Rites faithful
An ecclesiastical province sui juris , covering Romania :
Exempt, i.e. Immediately subject to the Holy See
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ukrainian provinces and Metropolitan dependencies
Polish province
European dioceses
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
A single ecclesiastical province sui juris
The more general adjective "Byzantine" is often used instead of "Ruthenian" in North America.
Although its origins are, as the name suggests, in Ruthenia , (now part of Slovakia and Ukraine) its sole exempt diocese (i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See), covers the Czech Republic while all other dioceses depend from the US-based Metropolitan head of the church:
There is a sole ecclesiastical province, the Metropolitanate sui juris , entirely within the United States – the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh:
A further directly dependent on the Metropolitan:
The Synod is the Council of the Slovak Church
All these are entirely exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See:
entirely exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See:
entirely exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See:
Alexandrian Rite churches
A single ecclesiastical province sui juris , covering Ethiopia (Synod styled Council of the Ethiopian Church)
A single ecclesiastical province sui juris , covering all and only Eritrea , which has no Latin Church diocese
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 :
(Arch)eparchies immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province
Eparchies suffragan to a Latin Metropolitan
See also: Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church
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).
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad , Archeparchy for central Iraq
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul , Archeparchy for northern Iraq
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo , Archeparchy for part of Syria (cfr. infra)
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Hassaké–Nisibi , Archeparchy for part of Syria (cfr. infra)
Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Cairo , for Egypt
Syriac Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Sudan and South Sudan , no proper see, but vested in the Cairo Eparch as Protosynkellos for Sudan and South Sudan
Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark , with cathedral see at Bayonne, New Jersey , for the United States
Nominal Metropolitans
These are without suffragans. Both are in Syria :
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See :
Ecclesiastical Province of Trivandrum
Ecclesiastical Province of Tiruvalla
Immediately subject to the Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church
'Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See
Patriarchal ecclesiastical province of Cilicia
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.
Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Aleppo , in and for part of Syria
Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Istanbul , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Istanbul (the former Constantinople), in and for Turkey
Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Baghdad , in and for Iraq
Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv , Archeparchy (not metropolitan) with cathedral see in Lviv , in and for (part of) Ukraine
Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Damascus , Exarchate with cathedral see in Damascus , in and for part of Syria
Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Amman , Exarchate with cathedral see in Jerusalem , in the Holy Land (Israel/ Palestine ), also for Jordan
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires , Eparchy with cathedral see in Buenos Aires , in and for Argentina
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale , Eparchy with cathedral see in Brooklyn, New York , in the United States, also for Canada
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris , Eparchy with cathedral see in Paris , in and for France
Chaldean Catholic Catholicos-Patriarch of Babylon
the patriarchal proper Metropolitanate Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baghdad , with its three suffragans Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Alquoch , Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Amadiya , Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aqra ,
Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kirkuk (Iraq), Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tehran (Iran), Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Urmya with its sole suffragan Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Salmas ,
Archdioceses of Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Ahwaz , Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Basra (Iraq), Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Diyarbakir , Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil , Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (Iraq)
Eparchies of Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aleppo (Syria), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Beirut (Lebanon), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Cairo (Egypt), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter The Apostle of San Diego (US), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit (US), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto (Canada), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney (Australia), Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Sulaimaniya , Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Zaku
Territories dependent on the Patriarch: Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Jerusalem , Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Jordan
Ecclesiastical Province of Eranakulam‑ Angamaly
Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Mississauga , for Canada
St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chicago , with cathedral see at Bellwood, Illinois , for the USA; also Syro-Malabar Apostolic visitator in Canada
Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Great Britain , with cathedral see at Preston, Lancashire, England; for England, Scotland & Wales
Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne , for Australia, with cathedral see at Melbourne , Victoria state; also Syro-Malabar Apostolic visitator in New Zealand
Ecclesiastical Province of Changanassery
Ecclesiastical Province of Tellicherry
Ecclesiastical Province of Thrissur
Archdiocese of Kottayam
Syro-Malabar eparchies
These are suffragans of Roman Catholic (Latin Church ) Indian Metropolitan archbishops, hence part of their mixed-rite provinces.
under Agra
under Bhopal
under Bombay
under Gandhinagar
under Hyderabad
under Nagpur
under Raipur