List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)


As of May 31, 2018, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,160 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 645 archdioceses and 2,236 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 2,103 titular sees.
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.
The list needs regular updating and is incomplete, but as articles are written up, more will be added, and various aspects need to be regularly updated.

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Types of Catholic Dioceses

This refers to Catholic dioceses in the world, of all Churches, as of 2018.
TypeTotalFilledVacant
Holy See: St.Peter's Chair in Rome 110
Patriarchal Sees 980
Titular Patriarchal Sees431
Major Archiepiscopal Sees 440
Metropolitan Sees 54953217
Other Archiepiscopal Sees 77707
Episcopal Sees 2,2372,068169
Titular Metropolitan Sees including Archeparchies931281
Titular Archiepiscopal Sees including Archeparchies91586
Titular Episcopal Sees including Eparchies1,9151,108807
Territorial Prelatures42402
Territorial Abbacies 1192
Military Ordinariates 36288
Personal Prelature 110
Apostolic Vicariates 84759
Apostolic Prefectures 391524
Apostolic Administrations880
Independent Missions 880

Additional types, exclusively for the Eastern Churches, Ex-Anglican and extraordinary form
TypeTotalFilledVacant
Major Archeparchies 440
Metropolitan Sees Sui Juris550
Apostolic Exarchates 16142
Ordinariates for the Faithful of the Eastern Churches 972
Personal Ordinariates 330
Patriarchal Exarchates 1082
Archiepiscopal Exarchates 541
Territories Dependent on the Patriarch 550
Personal Apostolic Administration 110

Exempt Catholic Dioceses (directly subject to the Holy See)

These 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.
For transcontinental Cyprus, Turkey and Azerbaijan, see Asia
There are also 'meetings of episcopal conferences' for the bishops from countries belonging to:
; Exempt dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See, each for a whole small country
;Exempt dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical Province of Salzburg
;Ecclesiastical Province of Vienna
; Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Mechelen-Brussels, covering Belgium
; also comprises - without separate dioceses - three European insular crown dependencies 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

;Exempt Latin dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See
;Eastern Church dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See or to their particular church's Patriarch or Major Archbishop
;Ecclesiastical Province of Besançon
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bordeaux
;Ecclesiastical Province of Clermont
;Ecclesiastical Province of Dijon
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lille
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lyon
;Ecclesiastical Province of Marseille
;Ecclesiastical Province of Montpellier
;Ecclesiastical Province of Paris
;Ecclesiastical Province of Poitiers
;Ecclesiastical Province of Reims
;Ecclesiastical Province of Rennes
;Ecclesiastical Province of Rouen
;Eccleasiastical Province of Toulouse
;Eccleasiastical Province of Tours
;Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical province of Bamberg
;Ecclesiastical province of Berlin
; Rhenish ecclesiastical province
;Upper Rhenish ecclesiastical province
;Northern German ecclesiastical province
;Ecclesiastical province of Munich and Freising, in Bavaria
;Central German ecclesiastical province
;Ecclesiastical province of Armagh — covers all of Northern Ireland and part of the Republic of Ireland
;Ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly
;Ecclesiastical province of Dublin
;Ecclesiastical province of Tuam
;Ecclesiastical Province of Rome
;other exempt Italian 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 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
;Ecclesiastical Province of Malta
;Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Utrecht, covering the Netherlands proper
;Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lisboa
;Ecclesiastical Province of Braga
;Ecclesiastical Province of Évora
; All exempt, each directly subject to the Holy See, no provincial or national conferences
;
;the Military Ordinariate for Great-Britain for UK-based troops, being joint with England & Wales, is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical province of Glasgow
;Ecclesiastical province of St Andrews and Edinburgh

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

;Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical province of Barcelona
;Ecclesiastical province of Burgos
;Ecclesiastical province of Granada
;Ecclesiastical province of Madrid
;Ecclesiastical province of Mérida-Badajoz
;Ecclesiastical province of Oviedo
;Ecclesiastical province of Pamplona
;Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Compostela
;Ecclesiastical province of Seville, mainly comprising Andalusia
;Ecclesiastical province of Tarragona
;Ecclesiastical province of Toledo
;Ecclesiastical province of Valencia, including the Balearic Isles
;Ecclesiastical province of Valladolid
;Ecclesiastical province of Zaragoza
;only exempt dioceses, each immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Shkodër-Pult
;Ecclesiastical Province of Tiranë-Durrës
;The Republic of Macedonia has
;Montenegro has no national level, but two Latin dioceses
;Ecclesiastical Province of Beograd, Latin, covering Serbia
;Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Ruski Krstur, for Catholics of Byzantine Rite in Serbia

Episcopal Conference of Belarus

;The Belarussian Catholic Church has no proper diocese presently, only an apostolic visitor for Belarus and another for abroad, neither vested in any see
; Ecclesiastical Province of Miensk-Mahiloǔ
;Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Sarajevo, covering all Bosnia and Hercegovina 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:
;Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Đakovo-Osijek, also known as Simium
;Ecclesiastical Province of Rijeka
;Ecclesiastical Province of Split-Makarska
;Ecclesiastical Province of Zagreb
;Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bohemia or Prague
;Ecclesiastical Province of Moravia or Olomouc
; Exempt Latin dioceses, immediately depending from the Holy See
;Exempt Eastern Catholic
;Ecclesiastical Province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos
; 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
;Ecclesiastical Province of Riga, covering Latvia
;Ecclesiastical Province of Vilnius
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kaunas
;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
;Exempt
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bucharest
;Eastern Catholic Major Archiepiscopal Romanian Catholic Church's ecclesiastical province sui juris, covering Romania
;Ecclesiastical Province of Moscow
; also includes, in Asia, one exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bratislava
;Ecclesiastical Province of Košice
;Slovak Catholic Metropolitanate sui juris of Prešov
;Ecclesiastical Province of Ljubljana
;Ecclesiastical Province of Maribor
;Croatian Catholic Eparchy of Križevci, the Croatian proper diocese of the Byzantine rite Eastern Croatian Catholic Church, suffragan of the Metropolitan of Zagreb, also covers Catholics of Byzantine Rite in all of Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Episcopal Conference of Ukraine

;Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical province of Lviv, covering the Latin church in all Ukraine, including the Russian-annexed Crimea
;Armenian Catholic
;Ruthenian Catholic
;Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitanates

Episcopal Conference of Canada

;Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical province of Edmonton, comprising most of the province of Alberta.
;Ecclesiastical province of Gatineau, comprising the western and northern parts of the province of Quebec.
;Ecclesiastical province of Grouard–McLennan, comprising the northernmost parts of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, as well as the Yukon and Northwest Territory.
;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
;Ecclesiastical province of Léon
;Ecclesiastical province of Tuxtla Gutierrez
;Ecclesiastical province of Chihuahua
;Ecclesiastical province of Durango
;Ecclesiastical province of Guadalajara
;Ecclesiastical province of Hermosillo
;Ecclesiastical province of Tulancingo
;Ecclesiastical province of Jalapa
;Ecclesiastical province of México
;Ecclesiastical province of Monterrey
;Ecclesiastical province of Morelia
;Ecclesiastical province of Oaxaca
;Ecclesiastical province of Puebla
;Ecclesiastical province of San Luis Potosí
;Ecclesiastical province of Tlalnepantla
;Ecclesiastical province of Yucatán
;Ecclesiastical province of San José de Costa Rica
;Exempt military ordinariate, immediately subject to the Holy See,
;Ecclesiastical province of San Salvador, covering El Salvador
;Exempt dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Guatemala
;Ecclesiastical province of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán
;Ecclesiastical province of Tegucigalpa, covering Honduras
;Ecclesiastical province of Managua, covering Nicaragua
;Exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical province of Panamá, covering Panama
;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
;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 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.
;Ecclesiastical province of la Habana
;Ecclesiastical province of Camagüey
;Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Cuba
; 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
;Ecclesiastical province of Cap-Haïtien
;Ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince
;Ecclesiastical province of San Juan de Puerto Rico, covering the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
; Exempt, immediately subject to the holy See
Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops divides the non-exempt dioceses of the United States 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.
;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.
;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 states of Hawaii , Nevada and Utah.
;Bishops' Region XII
;Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage, 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
;A diocese from the ecclesiastical province of San Francisco.
;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.
;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] for their particular hierarchies.
;Antiochian rites
;Maronite Church
;Syriac Catholic Church
;Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
;Armenian rite
;Armenian Catholic Church
;Byzantine rites
;Melkite Greek Catholic Church
;Romanian Catholic Church
;Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
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
; 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 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
; 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
; 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 São João Batista em Curitiba
;Ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão
;Ecclesiastical province of São Paulo
;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
; 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
; 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
; 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
; exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical province of Asunción
; 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
;Ecclesiastical province of Montevideo
; 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
;Ecclesiastical province of Valencia en Venezuela
For transcontinental Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus and the Russian Federation, see Europe

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

; exempt, nation-covering diocesan circonscriptions, often not called after the see, each immediately subject to the Holy See
; Missions sui juris, immediately subject to the Holy See
;all Latin dioceses are exempt, i.e. no ecclesiastical province, but each immediately subject to the Holy See. They alone constitute the Episcopal conference proper, not the numerous Eastern Catholic Ordinaries, who are grouped in specific 'national' Assemblies below
; in Asian Middle East:
; in Africa: see there

''Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Egypt''

see Africa

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

No ecclesiastical province, the Latin Church has only the exempt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ispahan, directly subject to the Holy See
The conference also includes Eastern Catholic bishops of two churches:
;Ecclesiastical Province of Mary Most Holy in Astana, covering all Kazakhstan
covering transcontinental Turkey, which is not comprised in any Latin ecclesiastical province
;Exempt Latin dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See
;Eastern dioceses, directly subject to their Patriarchs
;Ecclesiastical Province of Dhaka
;Ecclesiastical Province of Chittagong
;Ecclesiastical Province of Mandalay
;Ecclesiastical Province of Taunggyi
;Ecclesiastical Province of Yangon
;No ecclesiastical province, all exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See
includes various Eastern Church dioceses, notably Syro-Malankara and Syro-Malabar, either in Eastern provinces of their own particular churches, exempt or as suffragans of Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishops in their mixed-rite ecclesiastical provinces
;Exempt Eastern Catholic eparchies, immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Agra
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bangalore
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bhopal
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bombay
;Ecclesiastical Province of Calcutta
;Ecclesiastical Province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar
;Ecclesiastical Province of Delhi
;Ecclesiastical Province of Gandhinagar
;Ecclesiastical Province of Goa and Daman
;Ecclesiastical Province of Guwahati
;Ecclesiastical Province of Hyderabad
;Ecclesiastical Province of Imphal
;Ecclesiastical Province of Madras and Mylapore
;Ecclesiastical Province of Madurai
;Ecclesiastical Province of Nagpur
;Ecclesiastical Province of Patna
;Ecclesiastical Province of Pondicherry and Cuddalore
;Ecclesiastical Province of Raipur
;Ecclesiastical Province of Ranchi
;Ecclesiastical Province of Shillong
;Ecclesiastical Province of Thiruvananthapuram
;Ecclesiastical Province of Verapoly
;Ecclesiastical Province of Visakhapatnam
;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
;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
;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
;Exempt dioceses in Brunei and Singapore
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kuala Lumpur, in Peninsular Malaysia
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kuching, in Sarawak state, on Borneo
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu, in Sabah state, on Borneo
;Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical Province of Karachi, in Sindh province
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lahore, in Punjab province
;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
;Ecclesiastical Province of Colombo
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bangkok
;Ecclesiastical Province of Thare and Nonseng
, at Nha Trang
;Ecclesiastical Province of Hanoi
;Ecclesiastical Province of Hue
;Ecclesiastical Province of Ho Chi Minh City
;Ecclesiastical Province of Taipei, covering Taiwan
;Exempt, each directly subject to the Holy See, mainly missionary Apostolic prefectures; many are truly vacant or under a temporary Apostolic administrator; No Apostolic Vicariates)
;Ecclesiastical Province of Anking
;Ecclesiastical Province of Peking
;Ecclesiastical Province of Changsha
;Ecclesiastical Province of Chungking
;Ecclesiastical Province of Foochow
;Ecclesiastical Province of Canton
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kweyang
;Ecclesiastical Province of Hangchow
;Ecclesiastical Province of Hankow
;Ecclesiastical Province of Tsinan
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kaifeng
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kunming
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lanchow
;Ecclesiastical Province of Nanchang
;Ecclesiastical Province of Nanking
;Ecclesiastical Province of Nanning
;Ecclesiastical Province of Mukden
;Ecclesiastical Province of Hohot
;Ecclesiastical Province of Taiyuan
;Ecclesiastical Province of Sian
;Exempt - the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross has its see in Australia.
;Ecclesiastical Province of Nagasaki
;Ecclesiastical Province of Osaka
;Ecclesiastical Province of Tokyo
;exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kwanju, in South Korea
;Ecclesiastical Province of Seoul, including North Korea
;Ecclesiastical Province of Taegu, in South Korea

Episcopal Conference of Australia

;Exempt dioceses
;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
;Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Wellington
; An exempt diocese, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Note: The United States Minor Outlying Islands —such as Wake, Midway, and Johnston, which are territories of USA—are administered by the US Military Ordinariate, in Washington, D.C.
Note: The Diocese of Honolulu, on and for Hawaii, is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of San Francisco

Ecclesiastical Province of Agaña

This province covers all of French Polynesia and the Pitcairn 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
Most national churches are also part of an episcopal conference and a regional group of those, so we list them geographically:

''Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of Egypt''

; Latin Church
; Alexandrian Rite :
; 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
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
;Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical Province of Freetown, covering Sierra Leone
;Ecclesiastical Province of Accra
;Ecclesiastical Province of Cape Coast
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kumasi
;Ecclesiastical Province of Tamale
;Ecclesiastical Province of Monrovia
;Ecclesiastical Province of Cotonou
;Ecclesiastical Province of Parakou
;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
;Ecclesiastical Province of Abidjan
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bouaké
;Ecclesiastical Province of Gagnoa
;Ecclesiastical Province of Korhogo
;Ecclesiastical Province of Conakry, covering Guinea
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bamako, covering Mali
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lomé, covering Togo
;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 Spanish colonial administration, now participating in the same ecclesiastical conference as ex-French Senegal:
; two exempt members of the Episcopal conference of the Arab region Latin bishops, see Asia:
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:
However, each country has an Alexandrian rite 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
;Ecclesiastical Province of Asmara
;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
;Ecclesiastical Province of Blantyre
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lilongwe
;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

Episcopal Conference of Tanzania

Ecclesiastical Province of Arusha

;Exempt diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Gulu
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kampala
;Ecclesiastical Province of Mbarara
;Ecclesiastical Province of Tororo
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kasama
;Ecclesiastical Province of Lusaka
This subcontinent is still covered by two distinct super-conferences:
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bujumbura
;Ecclesiastical Province of Gitega
;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
;Ecclesiastical Province of Kigali, covering Rwanda
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bertoua
;Ecclesiastical Province of Douala
;Ecclesiastical Province of Garoua
;Ecclesiastical Province of Yaoundé
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bangui, covering the Central African republic
; Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of N'Djamena
;Ecclesiastical Province of Brazzaville, covering the republic
;Ecclesiastical Province of Malabo
;Exempt missionary circonscription, directly subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Libreville, covering the rest of Gabon
; Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, in a country without province or conference
;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
; Only exempt dioceses, each for a whole country without national conference, directly subject to the Holy See
;Ecclesiastical Province of Maseru
;Ecclesiastical Province of Antananarivo
;Ecclesiastical Province of Antsiranana
;Ecclesiastical Province of Toamasina
;Ecclesiastical Province of Fianarantsoa
;Ecclesiastical Province of Toliara
;Ecclesiastical Province of Beira
;Ecclesiastical Province of Maputo
;Ecclesiastical Province of Nampula
;Ecclesiastical Province of Windhoek, covering Namibia
covers the dioceses in the republic of South Africa, and two neighbouring countries whose only dioceses belong to its provinces Botswana and Swaziland
;Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bloemfontein
;Ecclesiastical Province of Cape Town
;Ecclesiastical Province of Durban
;Ecclesiastical Province of Johannesburg
;Ecclesiastical Province of Pretoria
;Ecclesiastical Province of Bulawayo
;Ecclesiastical Province of Harare
These retain many Orthodox traditions, even in the hierarchic terminology, such as calling bishoprics Eparchies and archbishoprics Archeparchies.
In many respects they fall outside the competences of the regular Roman Curia, where they are mainly administered by a special Congregation for the Oriental Churches
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 countries, directly subject to the Holy See
We present them grouped per ancient rite, or liturgical tradition

Exempt, joint ordinariates for all the Eastern faithful

Exempt, joint Ordinariates or Administrations for the Byzantine Rites faithful

In the Arab World and Africa, the church has dioceses in:
Throughout the rest of the world, the Melkite Catholic church has dioceses and exachates for its diaspora in:
;Furthermore, one of the Ordinaries is appointed Apostolic visitor for the countrIes without proper ordinariates in Western Europe, while in some countries the Melkite diaspora is served pastorally by an Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful.

Romanian Byzantine Catholic Church (Major Archiepiscopal)

; 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, immediately dependent on the Major Archbishop, not part of his province
;Overseas provinces and Metropolitan dependencies
;Overseas Eparchies, suffragans of Roman Rote Metropolitan Archbishops
A single ecclesiastical province sui juris
; confusingly, here the more general adjective Byzantine is often used instead of Ruthenian
;although its origins are, as the name suggests, in Ruthenia, 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
;sole ecclesiastical province, the Metropolitanate sui juris, entirely in the United States - Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh
;further directly dependendent on the Metropolitan
Synod: Council of the Slovak Church
; overseas diocese immediately subject to the metropolitan
entirely exempt, i.e. each directly subject to the Holy See:
No diocese presently,
only an apostolic visitor for Belarus and another for abroad

Bulgarian Byzantine Catholic Church

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

Coptic Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

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

Maronite Catholic Church (Patriarchal)

; Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See:
;Immediately subject to the Patriarch:
;Subject to the Synod in Matters of Liturgical and Particular Law, Otherwise 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 in South America:
;eparchies immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province
;Eparchies suffragan to a Latin Metropolitan
;Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See
; Patriarchal ecclesiastical province
; Patriarchal exarchates
; Other dioceses etc., directly subject to the Patriarch
; nominal Metropolitans, without suffragans, both in Syria