List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States
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The following is the List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States (this list also 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 194 particular churches called dioceses led by bishops. In the United States, state counties or county equivalents are usually used to determine boundaries of most territorial dioceses. There are also nationwide or large area dioceses defined by rite for many Eastern Catholics, and the Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA defined as 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.
In addition to the 195 dioceses, there are several other dioceses in the nation's overseas dependencies.
The United States Catholic population is mainly of the Latin rite, 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 (Diocese) of Newark for Syrian Rite Catholics actually serves all Syrian Catholics in the entire United States; the Diocese of Albany serves not just the city of Albany, NY, but also the entire northeastern quarter of New York State.
All bishops from the United States and U. S. Virgin Islands, whether diocesan, coadjutor, or auxiliary; Eastern or Latin; are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishops from Puerto Rico form the Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña, while bishops in the overseas dependencies in the Pacific Ocean are members of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Anchorage comprises the state of Alaska.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Atlanta:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta comprises the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Baltimore:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore comprises all but five counties of the state of Maryland, and all of the states of Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia.
- Archdiocese of Baltimore
- Diocese of Arlington
- Diocese of Richmond
- Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
- Diocese of Wilmington (comprising Delaware and portions of Maryland, it is one of only a few dioceses to include more than one state in the U.S.)
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Boston:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Boston comprises the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Chicago:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Chicago comprises the state of Illinois.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati comprises the state of Ohio.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Denver:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Denver comprises the states of Colorado and Wyoming.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Detroit:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit comprises the state of Michigan.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Dubuque comprises the state of Iowa.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston comprises the eastern counties of the state of Texas.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Indianapolis comprises the state of Indiana.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Kansas City comprises the state of Kansas.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles:
The Eccclesiastical Province of Los Angeles comprises the southern and central counties of the state of California.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Louisville:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Louisville comprises the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Miami:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Miami comprises the state of Florida.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Milwaukee comprises the state of Wisconsin.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Mobile:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Mobile comprises the states of Alabama and Mississippi.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans:
The Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans comprises the state of Louisiana.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Newark:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Newark comprises the state of New Jersey.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Oklahoma City comprises the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Omaha:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Omaha comprises the state of Nebraska.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia comprises the state of Pennsylvania.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Portland:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Portland comprises the states of Idaho, Montana and Oregon.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Louis comprises the state of Missouri.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio:
The Ecclesiastical Province of San Antonio comprises the western counties of the state of Texas.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Santa Fe comprises the states of Arizona and New Mexico.
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe
- Diocese of Gallup (comprising portions of New Mexico and Arizona, it is one of only a few dioceses to include more than one state in the U.S.)
- Diocese of Las Cruces
- Diocese of Phoenix
- Diocese of Tucson
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Seattle:
The Ecclesiastical Province of Seattle comprises the state of Washington.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Agaña:
The Ecclesistical Province of Agaña comprises the United States overseas dependencies of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Also included are the sovereign and independent nations of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia.
[edit] Ecclesiastical province of Samoa-Apia:
The Ecclesisatical Province of Samoa-Apia is foreign to the United States but however includes as a suffragan, a single diocese that comprises a United States overseas dependency, American Samoa.
[edit] 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.
- Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Diocese of Arecibo
- Diocese of Caguas
- Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao
- Diocese of Mayagüez
- Diocese of Ponce
[edit] 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 suffragen eparchies.
[edit] 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 suffragen eparchies. The eparchies also serve the faithful of other Byzantine Rite Churches without established hierarchies in the United States.
[edit] Eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches under metropolitanates outside the U.S.
The following eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches do not have metropolitan sees in the United States to which they are subject, but are answerable to a patriarch, catholicos, major archbishop or metropolitan elsewhere.
- Eparchy of the United States of America and Canada (Armenian)
- Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego (Chaldean)
- Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit (Chaldean)
- Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles (Maronite)
- Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn (Maronite)
- Eparchy of Newton (Melkite)
- Eparchy of Saint George in Canton (Romanian)
- Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syrian)
- Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Chicago (Syro-Malabar)
[edit] Military Archdiocese
Members of the Armed Forces of the United States, and of the nation's diplomatic corps, both Latin and Eastern, are served by the Archdiocese of 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 two auxiliary bishops.
[edit] See also
- List of the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of the Roman Catholic cathedrals of the United States
- List of Roman Catholic archdioceses
- Nunciature to the United States
