Provinces and dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in the United
States. Each color represents one of the 32 Latin-rite provinces.
The following is the
list of the Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of the United States. This list includes not only dioceses of the
Latin or Western Church but also the eparchies (dioceses) of the
Eastern Catholic Churches that are in full communion with the
Bishop of Rome.
The
Catholic Church in the
United States comprises 195
particular churches, of which the 194
dioceses and one apostolic exarchate
[1] are each led by a
bishop. In the United States,
state,
counties or
county equivalents are usually used to determine boundaries of most territorial dioceses.
[2]
There are also nationwide or large area dioceses defined by rite for
many Eastern Catholics. In addition to the 195 territorial dioceses and
exarchate, there is the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA,
which ministers to Catholics serving in the military or diplomatic corps
and their dependents. Dioceses led by
archbishops are called
archdioceses. There are 32 archdioceses whose archbishops serve as the
metropolitans of 32 Roman Catholic
ecclesiastical provinces in the United States. The
Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, is not a metropolitan see. The
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter was established on January 1, 2012, for former Anglicans to join the Catholic Church.
[3]
In addition to the 195 dioceses and the single exarchate whose bishops are members of the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), there are several other dioceses in the nation's
unincorporated territories (i.e., in Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands).
The United States Catholic population is mainly of the
Latin Church, but
eparchies and archeparchies of the
Eastern Catholic Churches exist in the nation. These particular Churches are also organized into ecclesiastical provinces of their own or are
exempt dioceses immediately subject to the Holy See.
Dioceses and archdioceses are normally named by the city in which the
bishop or archbishop has his seat. The diocese may take in a much wider
area: e.g., the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark for Syrian
Rite Catholics actually serves all Syrian Catholics in the entire
United States and Canada; the Diocese of Albany serves not just the city
of Albany, NY, but also a large portion of central New York State.
All Catholic bishops from the United States and the
U. S. Virgin Islands—whether diocesan,
coadjutor, or
auxiliary;
Latin Rite or
Eastern Rite—are members of the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishops from
Puerto Rico form the
Episcopal Conference of Puerto Rico,
[4] while bishops in the overseas dependencies in the Pacific Ocean are members of the
Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.
Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage
The Ecclesiastical Province of Anchorage comprises the state of
Alaska.
Ecclesiastical province of Atlanta
The Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta comprises the states of
Georgia,
North Carolina, and
South Carolina.
Ecclesiastical province of Baltimore
The Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore comprises all but five counties of the state of
Maryland,
[5] and all of the states of
Delaware,
Virginia, and
West Virginia.
Ecclesiastical province of Boston
The Ecclesiastical Province of Boston comprises the states of
Maine,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, and
Vermont.
Ecclesiastical province of Chicago
The Ecclesiastical Province of Chicago comprises the state of
Illinois.
Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati
The Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati comprises the state of
Ohio.
Ecclesiastical province of Denver
The Ecclesiastical Province of Denver comprises the states of
Colorado and
Wyoming.
Ecclesiastical province of Detroit
The Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit comprises the state of
Michigan.
Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque
The Ecclesiastical Province of Dubuque comprises the state of
Iowa.
Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston
The Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston comprises the eastern and southern counties of the state of
Texas.
Ecclesiastical province of Hartford
The Ecclesiastical Province of Hartford comprises the states of
Connecticut and
Rhode Island, as well as a small portion of
New York.
[7]
Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis
The Ecclesiastical Province of Indianapolis comprises the state of
Indiana.
Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City
The Ecclesiastical Province of Kansas City comprises the state of
Kansas.
Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles
The Ecclesiastical Province of Los Angeles comprises the southern and central counties of the state of
California.
Ecclesiastical province of Louisville
The Ecclesiastical Province of Louisville comprises the states of
Kentucky and
Tennessee.
Ecclesiastical province of Miami
The
Ecclesiastical Province of Miami comprises the state of
Florida.
Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee
The Ecclesiastical Province of Milwaukee comprises the state of
Wisconsin.
Ecclesiastical province of Mobile
The Ecclesiastical Province of Mobile comprises the states of
Alabama and
Mississippi.
Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans
The Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans comprises the state of
Louisiana.
Ecclesiastical province of New York
The Ecclesiastical Province of New York comprises the state of
New York, except for a small portion that belongs to the Province of Hartford.
[7]
Ecclesiastical province of Newark
The Ecclesiastical Province of Newark comprises the state of
New Jersey.
Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City
The Ecclesiastical Province of Oklahoma City comprises the states of
Arkansas and
Oklahoma.
Ecclesiastical province of Omaha
The Ecclesiastical Province of Omaha comprises the state of
Nebraska.
Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia
The Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia comprises the state of
Pennsylvania.
Ecclesiastical province of Portland
The Ecclesiastical Province of Portland comprises the states of
Idaho,
Montana and
Oregon.
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis
The Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Louis comprises the state of
Missouri.
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
The Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis comprises the states of
Minnesota,
North Dakota and
South Dakota.
Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio
The Ecclesiastical Province of San Antonio comprises the western and northern counties of the state of
Texas.
Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco
The Ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco comprises the northern counties of the state of
California and all of the states of
Hawaii,
Nevada and
Utah.
Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe
The Ecclesiastical Province of Santa Fe comprises the states of
Arizona and
New Mexico.
Ecclesiastical province of Seattle
The Ecclesiastical Province of Seattle comprises the state of
Washington.
Ecclesiastical province of Washington
The Ecclesiastical Province of Washington comprises the
District of Columbia, five neighboring counties in
Maryland and the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
[5]
Ecclesiastical province of AgaƱa
The Ecclesistical Province of AgaƱa comprises the United States overseas dependencies of
Guam and the
Northern Mariana Islands and the unorganized, unincorporated territory of
Wake Island. Also included are the sovereign and independent nations of the
Marshall Islands,
Micronesia, and
Palau.
Ecclesiastical province of Samoa-Apia
The Ecclesisatical Province of Samoa-Apia is primarily composed of
territory outside of the United States, however, it includes as a
suffragan a single diocese that comprises an overseas dependency of the
United States,
American Samoa.
Ecclesiastical province of San Juan de Puerto Rico
The Ecclesiastical Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico comprises the United States Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico.
Province of Philadelphia (Ukrainian)
The
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
in the United States is organized into a metropolia (or province)
consisting of a metropolitan archeparchy and three suffragan eparchies.
Province of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian)
The
Ruthenian Catholic Church in the United States is organized into the
sui iuris Province of Pittsburgh,
consisting of a metropolitan archeparchy and three suffragan eparchies.
The eparchies also serve the faithful of other Byzantine Rite Churches
without established hierarchies in the United States, namely those of
the Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian,
Italo-Albanian, Macedonian, Russian, and Slovakian Byzantine Catholic
Churches.
Eastern Catholic Eparchies Immediately Subject to the Holy See
The following particular churches of various
Eastern Rites
are not suffragan to metropolitan sees, but are instead immediately
subject to the Holy See, although juridically they remain part of their
respective
patriarchal or
major archiepiscopal Churches.
Armenian Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Church
Maronite Catholic Church
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Romanian Catholic Church
Syrian Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Military Archdiocese
Members of the
Armed Forces of the United States
and their dependents, employees of the U.S. Veterans Health
Administration and its patients, and Americans in government service
overseas, including the nation's diplomatic corps and their dependents —
both Latin and Eastern — are served by the Archdiocese for the Military
Services, USA, a non-metropolitan
archdiocese
(that is, without suffragan dioceses within a territorial province). It
is led by an archbishop, who at present is assisted by three auxiliary
bishops.
Personal Ordinariate
Under the provisions of
Anglicanorum Coetibus, issued in 2009, an effort was underway to establish a
personal ordinariate, or diocese, in the United States. The ordinariate was formed for former
Anglicans, including members from the
Episcopal Church and
Continuing Anglican churches, and
Anglican Use parishes. The world's first such ordinariate is the
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
of England and Wales. The personal ordinariate for the United States,
the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, was established on
January 1, 2012 in accordance with the
apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of
Pope Benedict XVI.
[3]
Gallery of Archdioceses
Gallery of Dioceses
See also
- On July 14, 2010,
Pope Benedict XVI erected an apostolic exarchate (similar to an
apostolic vicariate in the Latin Church) — the Syro-Malankara Catholic Exarchate in the United States
— for Syro-Malankara Catholics in the United States. Although not the
same as an eparchy (diocese), an exarchate is still led by a bishop.
- For exceptions, see Ecclesiastical province#Provincial boundary lines.
- Cardinal Levada, William (January 1, 2012). Decree of Erection of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Holy See.
- Conferencia Episcopal PuertorriqueƱa (C.E.P.). GCatholic.org website. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- Maryland
is unusual in that fourteen of its 23 counties belong to dioceses whose
see cities are outside Maryland: (1) the nine counties of Maryland's Eastern Shore (Delmarva Peninsula) are part of the Diocese of Wilmington (Delaware) and (2) the five counties adjacent to the District of Columbia and in southern Maryland are part of the Archdiocese of Washington, which is a different province. Only the remaining nine counties and the City of Baltimore are part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
- For other such dioceses, see Ecclesiastical province#Provincial boundary lines.
- Fishers Island,
a part of Suffolk County, New York, and north of Long Island, is part
of the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, which is in the Province of
Hartford.
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