List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States

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.

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.

*Archdiocese of Atlanta
**Diocese of Charleston
**Diocese of Charlotte
**Diocese of Raleigh
**Diocese of Savannah

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.)

Ecclesiastical province of Boston:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Boston comprises the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

*Archdiocese of Boston
**Diocese of Burlington
**Diocese of Fall River
**Diocese of Manchester
**Diocese of Portland
**Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts
**Diocese of Worcester

Ecclesiastical province of Chicago:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Chicago comprises the state of Illinois.

*Archdiocese of Chicago
**Diocese of Belleville
**Diocese of Joliet
**Diocese of Peoria
**Diocese of Rockford
**Diocese of Springfield in Illinois

Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati comprises the state of Ohio.

*Archdiocese of Cincinnati
**Diocese of Cleveland
**Diocese of Columbus
**Diocese of Steubenville
**Diocese of Toledo
**Diocese of Youngstown

Ecclesiastical province of Denver:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Denver comprises the states of Colorado and Wyoming.

*Archdiocese of Denver
**Diocese of Cheyenne
**Diocese of Colorado Springs
**Diocese of Pueblo

Ecclesiastical province of Detroit:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit comprises the state of Michigan.

*Archdiocese of Detroit
**Diocese of Gaylord
**Diocese of Grand Rapids
**Diocese of Kalamazoo
**Diocese of Lansing
**Diocese of Marquette
**Diocese of Saginaw

Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Dubuque comprises the state of Iowa.

*Archdiocese of Dubuque
**Diocese of Davenport
**Diocese of Des Moines
**Diocese of Sioux City

Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston comprises the eastern counties of the state of Texas.

*Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
**Diocese of Austin
**Diocese of Beaumont
**Diocese of Brownsville
**Diocese of Corpus Christi
**Diocese of Tyler
**Diocese of Victoria in 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.

*Archdiocese of Hartford
**Diocese of Bridgeport
**Diocese of Norwich
**Diocese of Providence

Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Indianapolis comprises the state of Indiana.

*Archdiocese of Indianapolis
**Diocese of Evansville
**Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
**Diocese of Gary
**Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana

Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Kansas City comprises the state of Kansas.

*Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
**Diocese of Dodge City
**Diocese of Salina
**Diocese of Wichita

Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles:

The Eccclesiastical Province of Los Angeles comprises the southern and central counties of the state of California.

*Archdiocese of Los Angeles
**Diocese of Fresno
**Diocese of Monterey
**Diocese of Orange
**Diocese of San Bernardino
**Diocese of San Diego

Ecclesiastical province of Louisville:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Louisville comprises the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.

*Archdiocese of Louisville
**Diocese of Covington
**Diocese of Knoxville
**Diocese of Lexington
**Diocese of Memphis
**Diocese of Nashville
**Diocese of Owensboro

Ecclesiastical province of Miami:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Miami comprises the state of Florida.

*Archdiocese of Miami
**Diocese of Orlando
**Diocese of Palm Beach
**Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee
**Diocese of St. Augustine
**Diocese of St. Petersburg
**Diocese of Venice

Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Milwaukee comprises the state of Wisconsin.

*Archdiocese of Milwaukee
**Diocese of Green Bay
**Diocese of La Crosse
**Diocese of Madison
**Diocese of Superior

Ecclesiastical province of Mobile:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Mobile comprises the states of Alabama and Mississippi.

*Archdiocese of Mobile
**Diocese of Biloxi
**Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama
**Diocese of Jackson

Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans:

The Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans comprises the state of Louisiana.

*Archdiocese of New Orleans
**Diocese of Alexandria in Louisiana
**Diocese of Baton Rouge
**Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
**Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana
**Diocese of Lake Charles
**Diocese of Shreveport

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.

*Archdiocese of New York
**Diocese of Albany
**Diocese of Brooklyn
**Diocese of Buffalo
**Diocese of Ogdensburg
**Diocese of Rochester
**Diocese of Rockville Centre
**Diocese of Syracuse

Ecclesiastical province of Newark:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Newark comprises the state of New Jersey.

*Archdiocese of Newark
**Diocese of Camden
**Diocese of Metuchen
**Diocese of Paterson
**Diocese of Trenton

Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Oklahoma City comprises the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

*Archdiocese of Oklahoma City
**Diocese of Little Rock
**Diocese of Tulsa

Ecclesiastical province of Omaha:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Omaha comprises the state of Nebraska.

*Archdiocese of Omaha
**Diocese of Grand Island
**Diocese of Lincoln

Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia comprises the state of Pennsylvania.

*Archdiocese of Philadelphia
**Diocese of Allentown
**Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
**Diocese of Erie
**Diocese of Greensburg
**Diocese of Harrisburg
**Diocese of Pittsburgh
**Diocese of Scranton

Ecclesiastical province of Portland:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Portland comprises the states of Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

*Archdiocese of Portland
**Diocese of Baker
**Diocese of Boise
**Diocese of Great Falls-Billings
**Diocese of Helena

Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Louis comprises the state of Missouri.

*Archdiocese of Saint Louis
**Diocese of Jefferson City
**Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph
**Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau

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.

*Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
**Diocese of Bismarck
**Diocese of Crookston
**Diocese of Duluth
**Diocese of Fargo
**Diocese of New Ulm
**Diocese of Rapid City
**Diocese of Saint Cloud
**Diocese of Sioux Falls
**Diocese of Winona

Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio:

The Ecclesiastical Province of San Antonio comprises the western counties of the state of Texas.

*Archdiocese of San Antonio
**Diocese of Amarillo
**Diocese of Dallas
**Diocese of El Paso
**Diocese of Fort Worth
**Diocese of Laredo
**Diocese of Lubbock
**Diocese of San Angelo

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.

*Archdiocese of San Francisco
**Diocese of Honolulu
**Diocese of Las Vegas
**Diocese of Oakland
**Diocese of Reno
**Diocese of Sacramento
**Diocese of Salt Lake City
**Diocese of San Jose in California
**Diocese of Santa Rosa in California
**Diocese of Stockton

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

Ecclesiastical province of Seattle:

The Ecclesiastical Province of Seattle comprises the state of Washington.

*Archdiocese of Seattle
**Diocese of Spokane
**Diocese of Yakima

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.

*Archdiocese of Washington
**Diocese of Saint Thomas

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.

*Archdiocese of Agaña
**Diocese of Caroline Islands
**Diocese of Chalan Kanoa
**Apostolic Prefecture of the Marshall Islands

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.

*Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia
**Diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago

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

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.
*Archeparchy of Philadelphia
**Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma
**Eparchy of Chicago
**Eparchy of Stamford

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.
*Archeparchy of Pittsburgh
**Eparchy of Parma
**Eparchy of Passaic
**Eparchy of Van Nuys

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)

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.

*Archdiocese for the Military Services

ee 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

Resources

* [http://www.usccb.org/dioceses.htm United States Conference of Catholic Bishops List of Dioceses]
* [http://www.gcatholic.com/dioceses/data/countryUS.htm Catholic Dioceses in the United States] by [http://www.gcatholic.com Giga-Catholic Information]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/ Catholic-Hierarchy.org]