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Dioceses

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A diocese is an administrative territorial unit of the Catholic Church, governed by a bishop. Dioceses (and related sees such as archdioceses and eparchies) organize pastoral care, parishes, and the local Church’s mission. They vary widely in size, population, rite, and culture—from dense urban archdioceses to remote missionary territories.

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The Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia, a Latin Rite Archdiocese, is an active metropolitan see in Brazil, encompassing parts of Bahia state, including the city of Salvador. Established as a diocese on 25 February 1551 by Pope Julius III and elevated to an archdiocese in 1676, it is led by Cardinal Sérgio da Rocha as of 2020, holding the title of Primate of Brazil. As the head of the Ecclesiastical Province of São Salvador da Bahia, it oversees eight suffragan dioceses and is a cornerstone of Brazilian Catholicism. Notably, its Catedral Basílica Primacial do Santíssimo Salvador, a Jesuit-built cathedral from the 17th century, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a major pilgrimage destination.

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Did you know

• ...that the Diocese of Padua venerates Saint Anthony of Padua, who preached to fish when humans ignored him? His 13th-century miracles made the diocese’s basilica a major pilgrimage site.
• ...how Saint John Bosco transformed the Diocese of Turin with his youth ministry? His 19th-century founding of the Salesian Order turned Turin into a hub for Catholic education.
• ...that Saint Cyril of Jerusalem shaped the Diocese of Jerusalem with his catechetical teachings? His 4th-century lectures in Jerusalem guided early Christians in the Holy Land.
• ...why the Diocese of Avila is tied to Saint Teresa of Avila, whose mystical writings reformed spirituality? Her 16th-century convent in Ávila remains a center for Carmelite devotion.
• ...a sandal of Saint Peter the Apostle is preserved in the Diocese of Rome’s basilica? His 1st-century martyrdom established the diocese as the heart of the Catholic Church.

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Diocese	Type	Country	Bishop	CatholicPct	Status	Rite
Diocese	Type	Country	Bishop	CatholicPct	Status	Rite
Apostolic Exarchate of Colombia (Maronite)	Apostolic Exarchate	Colombia	Fadi Abou Chebel		Active	Maronite
Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela (Syrian)	Exarchate	Venezuela	Timoteo Hikmat		Active
Apostolic Prefecture of Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	Apostolic Prefecture	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	John Wisdom		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Aguarico	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	José Adalberto Jiménez Mendoza		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Aysén	Apostolic Vicariate	Chile	Luis Infante		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri	Apostolic Vicariate	Bolivia	Francisco Javier Del Río		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní	Apostolic Vicariate	Venezuela	Juan de Dios Peña Rojas		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguayo	Apostolic Vicariate	Paraguay	Juan Bautista Gavilán Velásquez		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni (Beni)		Bolivia	Vacant		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	Antonio Arregui Yarza		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Galápagos	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	Eugenio Arellano Fernández		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Guapi	Apostolic Vicariate	Colombia	Hernán Alvarado Solano		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Inírida	Apostolic Vicariate	Colombia	Joselito Carreño Quiñonez		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	Miguel Ángel Cadenas Cardo		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén en Peru (San Francisco Xavier)	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	Oscar Eduardo Pérez Miranda		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Leticia	Apostolic Vicariate	Colombia	José Luis Henao Cadavid		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Méndez	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	Néstor Montesdeoca Becerra, S.F.M.		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Mitú	Apostolic Vicariate	Colombia	Medardo Tomás Castillo López		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Napo	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	Adelio Pasqualotto		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Ñuflo de Chávez	Apostolic Vicariate	Bolivia	Antonio Eduardo Márquez		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Pando		Bolivia	Eugenio Coter		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Pilcomayo	Apostolic Vicariate	Paraguay	Pedro Collar Noguera		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	Juan Carlos Morán Moreno		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Ayacucho	Vicariate	Venezuela	Jonny Eduardo Reyes Sequera		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Carreño	Apostolic Vicariate	Colombia	Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán	Apostolic Vicariate	Colombia	Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Leguízamo-Solano	Vicariate	Colombia	Joaquín Humberto Pinzón Güiza		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	David Martínez De Aguirre		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Puyo	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	Rafael Cob García		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Requena	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	Juan Tomás Oliver Climent, O.F.M.		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Reyes	Apostolic Vicariate	Bolivia	Carlos Enrique Curiel Herrera		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of San Andrés y Providencia	Apostolic Vicariate	Colombia	Jaime Uriel Sanabria Arias		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	José Javier Bellotta Corviglia		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of San Miguel de Sucumbíos	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	Rafael Ibarguren		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	Gerardo Zerdín		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Tierradentro	Vicariate	Colombia	Óscar Augusto Múnera Ochoa		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Trinidad	Suffragan diocese	Trinidad and Tobago	Robert Llanos	25.0	Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Tucupita	Apostolic Vicariate	Venezuela	Guanare		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas	Apostolic Vicariate	Peru	José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde		Active	Latin
Apostolic Vicariate of Zamora en Ecuador	Apostolic Vicariate	Ecuador	Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés		Active	Latin
Archdiocese for the Military Services	Archdiocese	United States	Timothy Paul Broglio		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Agaña	Archdiocese	United States	Ryan P. Jimenez	50.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau	Archdiocese	United States
Archdiocese of Aparecida	Archdiocese	Brazil	Orlando Brandes	79.7	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Aracajú	Archdiocese	Brazil	Josafá Menezes da Silva	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Arequipa	Archdiocese	Peru	Javier Del Río Alba		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Asunción	Archdiocese	Paraguay	Edmundo Valenzuela Mellid	89.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Atlanta	Archdiocese	United States	Gregory J. Hartmayer	12.0	Active
Archdiocese of Ayacucho (Huamanga)	Archdiocese	Peru	Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca	Archdiocese	Argentina	Carlos José Tissera	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Baltimore	Archdiocese	United States	William E. Lori	15.2	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Barquisimeto	Metropolitan Archdiocese	Venezuela	Cardenal Barreto	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Barranquilla	Archdiocese	Colombia	Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Belém do Pará	Archdiocese	Brazil	Alberto Taveira Corrêa	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte	Archdiocese	Brazil	Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Bogotá	Archdiocese	Colombia	Luis José Rueda Aparicio	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Boston	Archdiocese	United States	Seán Patrick O'Malley	36.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Botucatu	Archdiocese	Brazil	Maurício Goulart Domingues	60.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Brasília	Archdiocese	Brazil	Paulo Cezar Costa	60.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Bucaramanga	Archdiocese	Colombia	Ismael Rueda Sierra	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Buenos Aires	Archdiocese	Argentina	Jorge García Cuerva	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Calabozo	Archdiocese	Venezuela	Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Camagüey	Archdiocese	Cuba	Wilfredo Pino Estévez		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Campinas	Archdiocese	Brazil	João Inácio Müller	60.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Campo Grande	Archdiocese	Brazil	João Aparecido Ribeiro	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien	Archdiocese	Haiti	Max Leroy Mésidor		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela	Archdiocese	Venezuela	Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cartagena	Archdiocese	Colombia	Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cascavel	Archdiocese	Brazil	José Antônio Peruzzo		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Castries	Archdiocese	Saint Lucia	Robert Rivas	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Chapecó	Archdiocese	Brazil	João Aparecido Cairo		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Chicago	Archdiocese	United States	Blase J. Cupich	33.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cincinnati	Archdiocese	United States	Dennis M. Schnurr	27.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar	Archdiocese	Venezuela	Juan Alberto Ayala Ramírez		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cochabamba	Archdiocese	Bolivia	Oscar Aparicio Céspedes	85.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cologne	Archdiocese	Germany	Rainer Maria Woelki	31.5	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Córdoba	Archdiocese	Argentina	Ángel Sixto Rossi	85.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Coro	Archdiocese	Venezuela	Juan de Dios Peña Rojas	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Corrientes	Archdiocese	Argentina	Andrés Stanovnik	85.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cuenca	Archdiocese	Ecuador	Marco Pérez Caicedo	85.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cuiabá	Archdiocese	Brazil	Mário Antônio da Silva	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cumaná	Archdiocese	Venezuela	Jesús González de Zárate Salas		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Curitiba	Archdiocese	Brazil	José Antônio Peruzzo	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Cuzco	Archdiocese	Peru	Richard Daniel Alarcón Urrutia	85.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Denver	Archdiocese	United States	Samuel J. Aquila	20.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Detroit	Archdiocese	United States	Allen Henry Vigneron	25.3	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Diamantina	Archdiocese	Brazil	Darci José Nicioli		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Dubuque	Archdiocese	United States	Thomas Robert Zinkula	11.2	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Feira de Santana	Archdiocese	Brazil	Zanoni Demettino Castro	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Florencia	Archdiocese	Colombia	Francisco Javier Múnera Correa		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Florianópolis	Archdiocese	Brazil	João Bosco Oliver de Faria	70.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Fort-de-France	Archdiocese	France	David Macaire		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Fortaleza	Archdiocese	Brazil	Gregório Paixão Neto	80.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Galveston–Houston	Archdiocese	United States	Daniel N. DiNardo	21.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Gatineau	Archdiocese	Canada	Marcel Damphousse	12.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Goiânia	Archdiocese	Brazil	João Justino de Medeiros Silva		Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Grouard–McLennan	Archdiocese	Canada	Gérard Pettipas, C.Ss.R.	18.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Guatemala	Archdiocese	Guatemala	Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez	65.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Guayaquil	Metropolitan Archdiocese	Ecuador	Luis Cabrera Herrera	85.0	Active	Latin
Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth	Archdiocese	Canada	Wayne Ignatius Pierre	12.0	Active	Latin

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Diocese	Country	ChanceryAddress	ChanceryCoordinates
Diocese	Country	ChanceryAddress	ChanceryCoordinates
Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní	Venezuela
Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguayo	Paraguay
Apostolic Vicariate of Inírida	Colombia
Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos	Peru
Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén en Peru (San Francisco Xavier)	Peru
Apostolic Vicariate of Mitú	Colombia
Apostolic Vicariate of Pilcomayo	Paraguay
Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán	Colombia
Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Leguízamo-Solano	Colombia
Apostolic Vicariate of San Andrés y Providencia	Colombia
Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas	Peru
Apostolic Vicariate of San Miguel de Sucumbíos	Ecuador
Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón	Peru
Apostolic Vicariate of Tierradentro	Colombia
Archdiocese of Arequipa	Peru
Archdiocese of Ayacucho (Huamanga)	Peru
Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar	Venezuela
Archdiocese of Cumaná	Venezuela
Archdiocese of Florencia	Colombia
Archdiocese of Maracaibo	Venezuela
Archdiocese of New York	United States
Archdiocese of Newark	United States
Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela	Venezuela
Diocese of Abancay	Peru
Diocese of Acarigua-Araure	Venezuela
Diocese of Allegheny	United States
Diocese of Apartadó	Colombia
Diocese of Arauca	Colombia
Diocese of Azogues	Ecuador
Diocese of Babahoyo	Ecuador
Diocese of Barinas	Venezuela
Diocese of Barrancabermeja	Colombia
Diocese of Benjamín Aceval	Paraguay
Diocese of Bluefields	Nicaragua
Diocese of Both Californias	Mexico
Diocese of Caacupé	Paraguay
Diocese of Caazapá	Paraguay
Diocese of Cabimas	Venezuela
Diocese of Cachoeira do Sul	Brazil
Diocese of Caicó	Brazil
Diocese of Cajamarca	Peru
Diocese of Camaçari	Brazil
Diocese of Campo Mourão	Brazil
Diocese of Canelones	Uruguay
Diocese of Canindeyú	Paraguay
Diocese of Carapeguá	Paraguay
Diocese of Carolina	United States
Diocese of Carora	Venezuela
Diocese of Carúpano	Venezuela
Diocese of Castanhal	Brazil
Diocese of Catanduva	Brazil
Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão	Brazil
Diocese of Chalatenango	El Salvador
Diocese of Charleston	United States
Diocese of Chiclayo	Peru
Diocese of Chimbote	Peru
Diocese of Chiquinquirá	Colombia
Diocese of Choluteca	Honduras
Diocese of Chosica	Peru
Diocese of Chulucanas	Peru
Diocese of Ciego de Ávila	Cuba
Diocese of Cienfuegos	Cuba
Diocese of Ciudad del Este	Paraguay
Diocese of Ciudad Guayana	Venezuela
Diocese of Ciudad Quesada	Costa Rica
Diocese of Coari	Brazil
Diocese of Comayagua	Honduras
Diocese of Concepción en Paraguay	Paraguay
Diocese of Coroatá	Brazil
Diocese of Coronel Oviedo	Paraguay
Diocese of Corumbá	Brazil
Diocese of Coxim	Brazil
Diocese of Cristalândia	Brazil
Diocese of Cruz das Almas	Brazil
Diocese of Cruzeiro do Sul	Brazil
Diocese of Danlí	Honduras
Diocese of Daule	Ecuador
Diocese of Diamantino	Brazil
Diocese of El Banco	Colombia
Diocese of El Tigre	Venezuela
Diocese of El Vigía-San Carlos del Zulia	Venezuela
Diocese of Encarnación	Paraguay
Diocese of Engativá	Colombia
Diocese of Escuintla	Guatemala
Diocese of Estância	Brazil
Diocese of Eunápolis	Brazil
Diocese of Facatativá	Colombia
Diocese of Fairbanks	United States
Diocese of Fontibón	Colombia
Diocese of Franca	Brazil
Diocese of Frederico Westphalen	Brazil
Diocese of Garagoa	Colombia
Diocese of Garzón	Colombia
Diocese of Girardota	Colombia
Diocese of Grajaú	Brazil
Diocese of Guajará-Mirim	Brazil
Diocese of Guanare	Venezuela
Diocese of Guanhães	Brazil
Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa	Cuba
Diocese of Guarabira	Brazil

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