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Roman Catholic

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Pope Leo XIV (2025-present)

Quick Facts

Tradition
Christianity · Catholic · Western
Current leader
Pope Leo XIV
Leader since
May 8th 2025
Days in office
–
Members
1.28 to 1.41 billionWikipedia: Catholic Church [2026]

Intro

Roman Catholic here refers to the Latin Church under the pope in Rome, with its diocesan and provincial structure organized through archdioceses, dioceses, and related Latin Church jurisdictions.

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Types of Latin Church jurisdictions

This page focuses on the Latin Church and its territorial structure, including metropolitan archdioceses, dioceses, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies, apostolic vicariates, apostolic prefectures, apostolic administrations, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, and missions sui juris.

Europe (Latin Church)

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
Ecclesiastical Province of Mechelen-Brussels, covering Belgium

Episcopal Conference of England and Wales

Exempt dioceses
Ecclesiastical Province of Birmingham
Ecclesiastical Province of Cardiff
Ecclesiastical Province of Liverpool
Ecclesiastical Province of Southwark
Ecclesiastical Province of Westminster

Episcopal Conference of France

Exempt Latin dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See
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
Ecclesiastical Province of Toulouse
Ecclesiastical Province of Tours

Episcopal Conference of Germany

Exempt, immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Bamberg
Ecclesiastical Province of Berlin
Ecclesiastical Province of Cologne
Ecclesiastical Province of Freiburg im Breisgau
Ecclesiastical Province of Hamburg
Ecclesiastical Province of Munich and Freising
Ecclesiastical Province of Paderborn

Episcopal Conference of Ireland, i.e. the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

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

Episcopal Conference of Italy, including San Marino and Vatican City

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
Ecclesiastical Province of Ancona-Osimo
Ecclesiastical Province of Bari-Bitonto
Ecclesiastical Province of Benevento
Ecclesiastical Province of Bologna
Ecclesiastical Province of Cagliari
Ecclesiastical Province of Campobasso-Boiano
Ecclesiastical Province of Catania
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
Ecclesiastical Province of Milan
Ecclesiastical Province of Modena-Nonantola
Ecclesiastical Province of Naples
Ecclesiastical Province of Oristano
Ecclesiastical Province of Palermo
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
Ecclesiastical Province of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Ecclesiastical Province of Siracusa
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

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
(and two more Nordic countries, not geographically part of Scandinavia proper, also both exempt)

Episcopal Conference of Scotland

Ecclesiastical Province of Glasgow
Ecclesiastical Province of St Andrews and Edinburgh

Episcopal Conference of Spain 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 (Latin Church)
Ecclesiastical Province of Tiranë-Durrës

Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius - for North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia

North Macedonia has
  • the Latin Diocese of Skopje (1816), a suffragan in the province of the Bosnian Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vrhbosna
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

Episcopal Conference of Belarus

Ecclesiastical Province of Miensk-Mahiloǔ

Episcopal Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Sarajevo, covering all Bosnia and Herzegovina

Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of Croatia

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

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

Exempt Latin (arch)dioceses, immediately depending from the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia
Ecclesiastical Province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos

Episcopal Conference of 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

Episcopal Conference of Latvia

Ecclesiastical Province of Riga

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

Episcopal Conference of Romania

Exempt (immediately subject to Rome, no ecclesiastical province)
Ecclesiastical Province of Bucharest (Latin)

Episcopal Conference of Russia

Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Moscow

Episcopal Conference of Slovakia

Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Bratislava
Ecclesiastical Province of Košice

Episcopal Conference of Slovenia

Ecclesiastical Province of Ljubljana
Ecclesiastical Province of Maribor

Episcopal Conference of Ukraine

Ecclesiastical province of Lviv

North America (Latin Church)

Episcopal Conference of Canada

Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Edmonton
Ecclesiastical Province of Gatineau
Ecclesiastical Province of Grouard–McLennan
Ecclesiastical Province of Halifax
Ecclesiastical Province of Keewatin-Le Pas
Ecclesiastical Province of Kingston
Ecclesiastical Province of Moncton
Ecclesiastical Province of Montréal
Ecclesiastical Province of Ottawa
Ecclesiastical Province of Québec
Ecclesiastical Province of Regina
Ecclesiastical Province of Rimouski
Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Boniface
Ecclesiastical Province of St. John's, Newfoundland
Ecclesiastical Province of Sherbrooke
Ecclesiastical Province of Toronto
Ecclesiastical Province of Vancouver

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

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

Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua

Ecclesiastical province of Managua

Episcopal Conference of Panama

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

Episcopal Conference of the (Lesser) Antilles (and Belize and Guyanas)

the Diocese of Saint-Thomas
Ecclesiastical province of Castries
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
Ecclesiastical province of Port of Spain

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
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

Episcopal Conference of the United States of America

Exempt, immediately subject to the holy See
Ecclesiastical province of New York
Ecclesiastical province of Newark
Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia
Ecclesiastical province of Baltimore
Ecclesiastical province of Washington
Ecclesiastical province of Louisville
Ecclesiastical province of Mobile
Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans
Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati
Ecclesiastical province of Detroit
Ecclesiastical province of Chicago
Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis
Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque
Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City
Ecclesiastical province of Omaha
Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis
Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston
Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio
Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles
Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco
Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage-Juneau
Ecclesiastical province of Portland in Oregon
Ecclesiastical province of Seattle
Ecclesiastical province of Denver
Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe
Ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas
Ecclesiastical province of Miami
Ecclesiastical province of Atlanta

South America (Latin Church)

Exempt diocese, directly subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of Argentina

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

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 Chapecó
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 Joinville
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 José do Rio Preto
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

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

Asia

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

Episcopal conference of the Arab region

all Latin dioceses are exempt, i.e. no ecclesiastical province, but each is immediately subject to the Holy See
in Asian Middle East:

Episcopal Conference of Iran

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan (1629), directly subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of Kazakhstan

Ecclesiastical Province of Mary Most Holy in Astana

Episcopal Conference of Turkey

Exempt Latin dioceses, immediately subject to the Holy See

Episcopal Conference of Bangladesh

Ecclesiastical Province of Dhaka
Ecclesiastical Province of Chittagong

Episcopal Conference of 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

The Episcopal Conference of India includes the Latin Church dioceses in India and the country of Bhutan.

Ecclesiastical Province of Agra
Ecclesiastical Province of Bangalore
Ecclesiastical Province of Bhopal
Ecclesiastical Province of Bombay
Ecclesiastical Province of Calcutta
Ecclesiastical Province of Calicut
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

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

Cambodia, no ecclesiastical province but directly subject to Rome
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
Ecclesiastical Province of Kuching
Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu

Episcopal Conference of Pakistan

Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Karachi
Ecclesiastical Province of Lahore

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

Ecclesiastical Province of Colombo

Episcopal Conference of Thailand

Ecclesiastical Province of Bangkok
Ecclesiastical Province of Thare and Nonseng

Episcopal Conference of Vietnam

Ecclesiastical Province of Hà Nội
Ecclesiastical Province of Huế
Ecclesiastical Province of Hồ Chí Minh City

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)

Exempt, each directly subject to the Holy See
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
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

Oceania (Latin Church)

Episcopal Conference of Australia

Exempt (arch)dioceses (immediately subject to Rome, no province)
Ecclesiastical Province of Adelaide
Ecclesiastical Province of Brisbane
Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne

Ecclesiastical Province of Perth

Ecclesiastical Province of Sydney

Episcopal Conference of New Zealand

Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See

Ecclesiastical Province of Wellington

Episcopal Conference of the Pacific

Ecclesiastical Province of Agaña

Ecclesiastical Province of Nouméa
Ecclesiastical Province of Papeete

This province covers all of French Polynesia 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

Africa (Latin Church)

Egypt

Latin Church
Mostly exempt dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Alger

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

    Episcopal Conference of Ghana

    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
    Ecclesiastical Province of Koupéla
    Ecclesiastical Province of Ouagadougou
    Ecclesiastical Province of Niamey, covering Niger

    Episcopal Conference of 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

    Episcopal Conference of Mali

    Ecclesiastical Province of Bamako

    Episcopal Conference of Togo

    Ecclesiastical Province of Lomé

    Episcopal Conference of Senegal, Cape Verde, Mauritania and Guinée-Bissau

    Ecclesiastical Province of Dakar, covering Senegal

    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.

    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
    Ecclesiastical Province of Khartoum

    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

    Ecclesiastical Conference of Burundi

    Ecclesiastical Province of Bujumbura
    Ecclesiastical Province of Gitega

    Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩

    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

    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

    Ecclesiastical Province of Berbérati

    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

    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

    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

    Episcopal Conference of South Africa, Botswana and Eswatini

    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

    Diplomatic missions

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    Source: Intro adapted from the Wikipedia article "Catholic Church". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source: Table data adapted from the Wikipedia article "List of heads of the diplomatic missions of the Holy See". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Source: Latest updates for the apostolic nunciatures in El Salvador and Libya, and for the ecclesiastical province of Berbérati, from the Holy See Press Office bulletin of 25 April 2026.

    Source: Latest updates for the apostolic nunciatures in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, from the Holy See Press Office bulletin of 25 May 2026.

    Source: Text adapted from the Wikipedia article "List of Catholic dioceses". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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