List of Catholic dioceses in Venezuela
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The diocesan system of the Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela, united in the episcopal conference, comprises :
- nine Latin ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan (who has an archdiocese), including a total of 23 suffragandioceses each headed by a bishop.
- four exempt Latin jurisdictions : the military ordinariate and three pre-diocesan apostolic vicariates.
- two Eastern Catholic exempt apostolic exarchates for rite-specific particular churches sui iuris