Ecclesiastical region


An ecclesiastical region is a formally organised geographical group of dioceses, ecclesiastical provinces or parishes, without a proper Ordinary as such, in Catholic or Protestant Churches.

Catholic Church

Apart from historical other uses, there are presently ecclesiastical regions, grouping parts of the extensive episcopate in five Catholic countries.
The equivalent 'apostolic regions' in France, created in 1961, were suppressed in 2004.

Italy

The Catholic Church in Italy is divided into 16 ecclesiastical regions. The regions mostly correspond to the 20 civil administrative regions of Italy.
  1. Abruzzo-Molise
  2. Basilicata
  3. Calabria
  4. Campania
  5. Emilia-Romagna
  6. Lazio = Latium
  7. Liguria
  8. Lombardy
  9. Marche
  10. Piemonte, including Valle d'Aosta
  11. Puglia
  12. Sardinia
  13. Sicily
  14. Tuscany
  15. Triveneto
  16. Umbria.

    Brazil

The regions -covering the federal state in parentheses- comprise the following ecclesiastical province :
  1. Regional Norte 1 : Manaus
  2. Regional Norte 2 : Belém do Pará
  3. Regional Nordeste 1 : Fortaleza
  4. Regional Nordeste 2 : Maceió, Natal, Olinda e Recife, Paraíba
  5. Regional Nordeste 3 : Aracaju, Feira de Santana, San Salvador di Bahia, Vitória da Conquista
  6. Regional Nordeste 4 : Teresina
  7. Regional Nordeste 5 Provincia ecclesiastica di São Luís do Maranhão
  8. Regional Leste 1 ; Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
  9. Regional Leste 2 : Belo Horizonte, Diamantina, Juiz de Fora, Mariana, Montes Claros, Pouso Alegre, Uberaba, Vitória
  10. Regional Sul 1 : Aparecida, Botucatu, Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, San Paolo, Sorocaba
  11. Regional Sul 2 : Cascavel, Curitiba, Curitiba degli Ucraini, Londrina, Maringá
  12. Regional Sul 3 : Passo Fundo, Pelotas, Porto Alegre, Santa Maria
  13. Regional Sul 4 : Florianópolis
  14. Regional Centro-Oeste : Brasília, Goiânia, Palmas and the army bishopric Ordinariato militare in Brasile
  15. Regional Oeste 1 : Campo Grande
  16. Regional Oeste 2 : Cuiabá
  17. Regional Noroeste : Porto Velho

    Canada

Four regions, each comprising several Latin provinces - Ontario and West also the Eastern Catholic province/eparchies, West also a non-metropolitan Latin archdiocese :
  1. Ontario : Kingston, Ottawa, Toronto, Ukrainian Eparchy of Toronto, Chaldean Eparchy of Mar Addai off Toronto, Ruthenian Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Metodius of Toronto
  2. West : Edmonton, Grouard-McLennan, Keewatin-Le Pas, Regina, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ukrainian province of Winnipeg
  3. Atlantic : Halifax-Yarmouth, Moncton, Saint John's
  4. Québec : Gatineau, Quebec, Rimouski, Montréal, Sherbrooke, Maronite Eparchy of Saint Maron of Montréal, ''Melkite Eparchy of the Salvator of Montréal''

    Mexico

Each region covers one or more ecclesiastical provinces :
  1. Sur : Acapulco
  2. Pacífico-Sur : Antequera, Tuxtla Gutiérrez
  3. Norte : Chihuahua
  4. Metropolitana : Archdiocese Ciudad Mexico
  5. Metro-Circundante : Tlalnepantla, Ciudad Mexico ''
  6. Vizcaya-Pacifico : Durango
  7. Occidente : Guadalajara
  8. Noroeste : Hermosillo, Tijuana
  9. Noreste : Monterrey
  10. Golfo : Jalapa
  11. Bajío : León, San Luis Potosí
  12. Don Vasco : Morelia
  13. Oriente : Puebla de los Ángeles
  14. Centro : Tulancingo
  15. Sureste : Yucatán

    United States

The dioceses of the United States are grouped into fifteen regions which, strictly speaking, are not "ecclesiastical regions" established by the Holy See, but rather regions that the USCCB established for convenience. They are not canonically established bodies. Fourteen of the regions are geographically based, for the Latin Catholic dioceses, the Eastern Catholic eparchies constitute the overlapping 'Region' XV.

Bishops' Region I

;Ecclesiastical province of Boston, comprising the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.
  • Metropolitan 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 Hartford, comprising the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, as well as Fishers Island in the state of New York.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hartford
  • *Diocese of Bridgeport
  • *Diocese of Norwich
  • *Diocese of Providence

    Bishops' Region II

;Ecclesiastical province of New York, comprising the state of New York except for Fishers Island.
  • Metropolitan 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

    Bishops' Region III

;Ecclesiastical province of Newark, comprising the state of New Jersey.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Newark
  • *Diocese of Camden
  • *Diocese of Metuchen
  • *Diocese of Paterson
  • *Diocese of Trenton
;Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia, comprising the state of Pennsylvania.
  • Metropolitan 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

    Bishops' Region IV

;Ecclesiastical province of Baltimore, comprising most of the state of Maryland as well as the states of Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia.
;Ecclesiastical province of Washington, comprising the District of Columbia, 5 counties in southern Maryland, and the United States Virgin Islands.
;Ecclesiastical province of Louisville, comprising the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville
  • *Diocese of Covington
  • *Diocese of Knoxville
  • *Diocese of Lexington
  • *Diocese of Memphis
  • *Diocese of Nashville
  • *Diocese of Owensboro
;Ecclesiastical province of Mobile, comprising the states of Alabama and Mississippi.
;Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans, comprising the state of Louisiana.
  • Metropolitan 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

    Bishops' Region VI

;Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati, comprising the state of Ohio.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cincinnati
  • *Diocese of Cleveland
  • *Diocese of Columbus
  • *Diocese of Steubenville
  • *Diocese of Toledo
  • *Diocese of Youngstown
;Ecclesiastical province of Detroit, comprising the state of Michigan.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Detroit
  • *Diocese of Gaylord
  • *Diocese of Grand Rapids
  • *Diocese of Kalamazoo
  • *Diocese of Lansing
  • *Diocese of Marquette
  • *Diocese of Saginaw

    Bishops' Region VII

;Ecclesiastical province of Chicago, comprising the state of Illinois.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago
  • *Diocese of Belleville
  • *Diocese of Joliet in Illinois
  • *Diocese of Peoria
  • *Diocese of Rockford
  • *Diocese of Springfield in Illinois
;Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis, comprising the state of Indiana.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Indianapolis
  • *Diocese of Evansville
  • *Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
  • *Diocese of Gary
  • *Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana
;Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee, comprising the state of Wisconsin.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Milwaukee
  • *Diocese of Green Bay
  • *Diocese of La Crosse
  • *Diocese of Madison
  • *Diocese of Superior

    Bishops' Region VIII

;Ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, comprising the states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
  • Metropolitan 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-Rochester

    Bishops' Region IX

;Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque, comprising the state of Iowa.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque
  • *Diocese of Davenport
  • *Diocese of Des Moines
  • *Diocese of Sioux City
;Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City, comprising the state of Kansas.
;Ecclesiastical province of Omaha, comprising the state of Nebraska.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of Omaha
  • *Diocese of Grand Island
  • *Diocese of Lincoln
;Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis, comprising the state of Missouri.
  • Metropolitan Archdiocese of St. Louis
  • *Diocese of Jefferson City
  • *Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph
  • *Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau

    Bishops' Region X

;Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston, comprising the east and southeast parts of the state of Texas.
  • Metropolitan 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 San Antonio, comprising the west and north of the state of Texas.
  • Metropolitan 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 Oklahoma City, comprising the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
;Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, comprising former Anglicans throughout the United States.
  • Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter