List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States

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Provinces and dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
Provinces and dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States

The following is the List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States.

The Roman 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 some Eastern Rite Catholics, and the Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA defined as the Catholics serving in the military and the dependents of those so serving. 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. A special archdiocese was created by the Vatican for the United States military. Such bodies 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.

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The seat of the Archdiocese of Anchorage is Holy Family Cathedral.
The seat of the Archdiocese of Anchorage is Holy Family Cathedral.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Anchorage comprises the state of Alaska.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta comprises the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

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.

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

Holy Name Cathedral on State Street is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Holy Name Cathedral on State Street is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Chicago comprises the state of Illinois.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati comprises the state of Ohio.

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

The Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit comprises the state of Michigan.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Dubuque comprises the state of Iowa.

St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica, Galveston, Texas
St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica, Galveston, Texas

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

The Ecclesiastical Province of Hartford comprises the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Indianapolis comprises the state of Indiana.

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

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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

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

The Ecclesiastical Province of Miami comprises the state of Florida.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Milwaukee comprises the state of Wisconsin.

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

The Cathedral of Saint Patrick is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of New York.
The Cathedral of Saint Patrick is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of New York.

The Ecclesiastical Province of New York comprises the state of New York.

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

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

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

The Ecclesiastical Province of Omaha comprises the state of Nebraska.

The Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia comprises the state of Pennsylvania.

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

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis.

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

The Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis comprises the states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

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

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is the motherchurch of the Diocese of Honolulu; it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is the motherchurch of the Diocese of Honolulu; it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.

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.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Santa Fe comprises the states of Arizona and New Mexico.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Seattle comprises the state of Washington.

The Ecclesiastical Province of Washington comprises the District of Columbia, five neighboring counties in Maryland, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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.

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.

The Ecclesiastical Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico comprises the United States Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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.

The Ruthenian Catholic Church in the United States is organized into 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.

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.

Members of the Armed Forces of the United States, both Latin and Eastern, are served by the Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA, a non-metropolitan archdiocese (that is, without suffragan dioceses in a province), consisting of an archbishop and three auxiliary bishops.

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