List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)

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As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris around the world.

In addition to these jurisdictions, there are 2,100 titular sees (bishoprics, archbishoprics and metropolitanates).

This is a structural list to show the relationships of each diocese to one another, grouped by ecclesiastical province, within each episcopal conference, within each continent or other geographical area.

Map[edit]

This map visualizes the provinces of the Catholic Church, as well as archdioceses (and other top-level entities) where provinces are not established.

Types of Catholic dioceses[edit]

This refers to Catholic dioceses in the world, of all Latin or Eastern churches, as of 5 October 2021.[1]

Type Total Filled Vacant
Holy See: St. Peter's Chair in Rome (papacy) 1 1 0
Ancient Patriarchal Sees of the East (Patriarchates) 6 6 0
Major Archiepiscopal Sees (Major Archeparchies) 4 4 0
Latin Patriarchal Sees 3 3 0
Titular Patriarchal Sees 4 3 1
Metropolitan Sees (Archdioceses & Eastern Archeparchies) 562 540 22
Other Archiepiscopal Sees (Latin Archdioceses & Eastern Archeparchies) 76 70 6
Episcopal Sees (Latin Dioceses & Eastern Eparchies) 2,248 2,033 215
Titular Metropolitan Sees including Archeparchies 92 14 78
Titular Archiepiscopal Sees including Archeparchies 91 6 85
Titular Episcopal Sees including Eparchies 1,913 1,059 854
Territorial Prelatures 49 36 4
Territorial Abbacies (Benedictine; often Exempt) 11 9 2
Military Ordinariates (all Exempt) 36 24 12
Personal Prelature (exempt) 1 1 0
Apostolic Vicariates (generally Exempt, mission) 84 75 9
Apostolic Prefectures (generally Exempt, mission) 39 14 25
Apostolic Administrations 8 7 1
Independent Missions (Missions sui iuris) 8 8 0

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

Type Total Filled Vacant
Metropolitan Sees (Eastern Archeparchies, Sui Juris) 5 5 0
Apostolic Exarchates (Eastern mission, Exempt) 13 11 2
Ordinariates for the Faithful of the Eastern Churches (Eastern, Exempt) 9 6 3
Personal Ordinariates (Western Anglican Patrimony, Anglican/Ordinariate Use, Exempt) 3 3 0
Patriarchal Exarchates (Eastern missions) 10 8 2
Archiepiscopal Exarchates (Eastern) 5 4 1
Territories Dependent on the Patriarch (Eastern) 5 4 1
Personal Apostolic Administration (unique case, Exempt) 1 1 0

Exempt Catholic Dioceses (directly subject to the Holy See)[edit]

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)[edit]

European exempt dioceses[edit]

Asian exempt dioceses[edit]

New World exempt dioceses[edit]

African exempt dioceses[edit]

Europe (Latin and Eastern Churches)[edit]

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[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of Austria[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of Belgium[edit]

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)[edit]

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[edit]

(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
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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Ecclesiastical Province of Malta

Episcopal Conference of the Netherlands[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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)[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Swiss Bishops Conference

only exempt dioceses, each immediately subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of Albania[edit]

Ecclesiastical province of Shkodër–Pult:
  Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult
  Diocese of Sapë
  Diocese of Lezhë

Ecclesiastical province of Tiranë-Durrës:
  Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës
  Diocese of Rrëshen
  Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania
Ecclesiastical Province of Shkodër-Pult (Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Tiranë-Durrës (mixed Churches)

Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius - for Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia[edit]

The Republic of 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[edit]

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[edit]

Latin Catholic dioceses in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
  Archdiocese of Vrhbosna
  Diocese of Banja Luka
  Diocese of Mostar-Duvno
  Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan
  Diocese of Gospić-Senj (Zavalje parish)
Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Sarajevo, covering all Bosnia and Herzegovina and ...
Croatian Catholic Eparchy of Križevci, the Croatian proper diocese of the Byzantine rite Eastern Croatian Catholic Church, suffragan of the Metropolitan of Zagreb, also covers Catholics of Byzantine Rite in all of Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of Croatia[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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)[edit]

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[edit]

Ecclesiastical Province of Riga, covering Latvia

Episcopal Conference of Lithuania[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of Poland[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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)[edit]

Episcopal Conference of Canada[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Ecclesiastical province of San José de Costa Rica

Episcopal Conference of El Salvador[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of Guatemala[edit]

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[edit]

Ecclesiastical province of Tegucigalpa, covering Honduras

Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua[edit]

Ecclesiastical province of Managua, covering Nicaragua

Episcopal Conference of Panama[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of the (Lesser) Antilles (and Belize and Guyanas)[edit]

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[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic[edit]

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[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of Puerto Rico[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of the United States of America[edit]

Exempt, immediately subject to the holy See and not part of a Bishops' Region
Provinces and dioceses of the Latin Church in the United States. Each color represents one of the 32 Latin-rite provinces. Not depicted are the U.S. Virgin Islands, which constitute the Diocese of St. Thomas, the sole suffragan diocese in the Province of Washington, D.C.

Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) divides the non-exempt dioceses of the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) into fourteen geographical regions—termed "Bishops' Regions" for the Latin Church provinces—and a fifteenth "region" that consists of the Eastern Catholic eparchies. These regions are not the canonical "ecclesiastical regions" described in canon 433 and 434, but are operated by an elected regional chairman.[2] However, the Ordinaries of Personal Ordinariates established under the auspices of Anglicanorum Coetibus are members of their respective Bishops’ Conferences, and the USCCB lists the exempt Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter as a part of Bishops’ Region X.

Bishops' Region I
Ecclesiastical province of Boston, comprising the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Ecclesiastical province of Hartford, comprising the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, as well as Fishers Island in the state of New York.
Bishops' Region II
Ecclesiastical province of New York, comprising the state of New York except for Fishers Island.
Bishops' Region III
Ecclesiastical province of Newark, comprising the state of New Jersey.
Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia, comprising the state of Pennsylvania.
Bishops' Region IV
Ecclesiastical province of Baltimore, comprising most of the state of Maryland as well as the states of Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia.
Ecclesiastical province of Washington, comprising the District of Columbia, 5 counties in southern Maryland, and the United States Virgin Islands.
Bishops' Region V
Ecclesiastical province of Louisville, comprising the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Ecclesiastical province of Mobile, comprising the states of Alabama and Mississippi.
Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans, comprising the state of Louisiana.
Bishops' Region VI
Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati, comprising the state of Ohio.
Ecclesiastical province of Detroit, comprising the state of Michigan.
Bishops' Region VII
Ecclesiastical province of Chicago, comprising the state of Illinois.
Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis, comprising the state of Indiana.
Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee, comprising the state of Wisconsin.
Bishops' Region VIII
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, comprising the states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Bishops' Region IX
Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque, comprising the state of Iowa.
Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City, comprising the state of Kansas.
Ecclesiastical province of Omaha, comprising the state of Nebraska.
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis, comprising the state of Missouri.
Bishops' Region X
Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston, comprising the east and southeast parts of the state of Texas.
Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio, comprising the west and north of the state of Texas.
Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City, comprising the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, comprising former Anglicans throughout the United States (and Canada).
Bishops' Region XI
Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles, comprising the southern part of the state of California.
Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco, comprising the northern part of the state of California and the state of Hawaii (in Oceania).
Bishops' Region XII
Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage-Juneau, comprising the state of Alaska.
Ecclesiastical province of Portland in Oregon, comprising the states of Idaho, Montana and Oregon, except for the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana.
Ecclesiastical province of Seattle, comprising the state of Washington
Bishops' Region XIII
Ecclesiastical province of Denver, comprising the states of Colorado and Wyoming, as well as the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana.
Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe, comprising the states of Arizona and New Mexico.
Ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas, comprising the states of Nevada and Utah.
Bishops' Region XIV
Ecclesiastical province of Miami, comprising the state of Florida.
Ecclesiastical province of Atlanta, comprising the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Bishops' Region XV

This is not a geographical region and it does not consist of ecclesiastical provinces. Instead, it consists exclusively of US branches of various, generally Europe- or Asia-based, particular Eastern Catholic Churches. See the Eastern Catholic Churches section (below) for their particular hierarchies.

Antiochian rites
Maronite Church
Syriac Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Armenian rite
Armenian Catholic Church
Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) rites
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Romanian Catholic Church
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (only sui iuris Church headquartered in the Americas)

Ecclesiastical province of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia

Syro-Oriental Rites
Chaldean Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

South America (Latin and Eastern Churches)[edit]

Exempt diocese, directly subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of Argentina[edit]

(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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Episcopal Conference of Peru[edit]

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[edit]

Ecclesiastical province of Montevideo

Episcopal Conference of Venezuela[edit]

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)[edit]

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

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