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As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church consists of 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions worldwide, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses. There are approximately 3,000 actual (non-titular) dioceses in the Catholic Church, including the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches. In the United States alone, there are 194 archdioceses and dioceses. Similar to dioceses, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter was established on January 1, 2012, to serve former Anglican groups and clergy in the United States who became Catholic.
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Eastern Catholic Churches
The Catholic Church is made up of 24 churches, 23 of which are "Eastern" or "Oriental" churches, with the remaining one being Latin (Roman). All 24 churches recognise the authority of the papacy, but each has its own forms of liturgy, devotions, and traditions, as well as its own hierarchy under a patriarch or archbishop.
The Eastern Catholic Churches were historically part of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, or the Church of the East, and they underwent various schisms throughout history. They generally fall into five liturgical traditions: Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, Chaldean or East Syrian, and Byzantine or Constantinopolitan. The liturgical word "rite" is sometimes conflated with the institutional word "church".
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Military Ordinariate of Belgium
As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church is comprised of 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses, 2,249 dioceses, apostolic vicariates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, and more. One of these military ordinariates is the Military Ordinariate of Belgium.
The Military Ordinariate of Belgium, also known as the Military Ordinariate of Bisdom bij de Krijgsmacht, was established as a military vicariate on September 7, 1957, and elevated to a military ordinariate on July 21, 1986. Ranking as a bishopric, it is vested in the primatial Metropolitan see of Mechelen-Brussels. The Military Ordinary's seat is located at the Co-cathedral of Saint Jacques-sur-Coudenberg (Sint-Jacob op de Koudenbergkerk) in Brussels, Belgium. The post of Military Ordinary is vested in the Archbishop of Mechelen and Primate of Belgium.
The Military Ordinariate of Belgium also comprises, without separate dioceses, three European insular crown dependencies: the Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey. This is similar to the Ecclesiastical province of Toronto, which comprises the southwest part of the province of Ontario, with the non-contiguous Diocese of Thunder Bay in western Ontario.
The Military Ordinariate of Belgium has had several incumbents since its establishment. These include:
- Jozef-Ernest van Roey (1957–1961)
- Leo Jozef Suenens (1961–1979)
- Godfried Danneels (1980–1986; military ordinary from 1986–2010)
- André-Joseph Léonard (incumbent, appointed 2010)
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Italo-Albanese Diocese of Lungro
There are approximately 3,000 non-titular dioceses in the Catholic Church, including the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches. As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church comprised 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses.
One of these dioceses is the Italo-Albanese Diocese of Lungro, an eparchy (diocese) of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church sui iuris of Byzantine Rite in Calabria, Italy. The Eparchy of Lungro was created in 1919 for members of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, the Catholics of the Byzantine Rite who had emigrated, mostly from Epirus and Albania, to Sicily and Calabria. The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church is characterised by a specific ethnic group: the Albanians of Italy, Arbëreshë or Italo-Albanesi. The Albanian ethno-linguistic group of Italy has maintained its identity, with the clergy acting as the strongest guardian and fulcrum of ethnic identification.
The Italo-Albanese Diocese of Lungro has a cathedral see at Lungro, near Cosenza in Calabria. It gained territory from the Archdiocese of Cosenza, Archdiocese of Rossano, Diocese of Bisignano, Diocese of Cassano all’Jonio, and Diocese of San Marco. The cathedral of the Italo-Albanese Diocese of Lungro is the Cattedrale di San Nicola di Mira, and its patron saint is Saint Nicholas of Myra.
The only place where the Byzantine Rite remained in Italy was the Monastery of Grottaferrata, an Italo-Greek foundation that became steadily Latinized over the centuries. Albanians of Sicily and Calabria, from the 18th century onwards, revived the monastery, where most of its monks, abbots, and students were and are Italo-Albanian. Important spiritual and cultural contributions have also been made by the monks and hieromonks at the Abbey of Saint Mary of Grottaferrata.
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Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio
There are approximately 3,000 actual dioceses in the Catholic Church, including over 652 archdioceses. One such archdiocese is the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio, which is located in Italy and has its seat in the city of Ferrara. The archdiocese is made up of 23 communes in the province of Ferrara and has 171 parishes, including 20 churches in the city of Ferrara that are not parishes.
The history of the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio can be traced back to the early Middle Ages. In April 978, Pope Benedict VII confirmed the papal jurisdiction over the diocese of Ferrara. However, between 1106 and 1123, the diocese of Ferrara fell under the control of the metropolitan of Ravenna, and its bishop, Landolfo, was suspended for refusing to submit. Pope Innocent II restored the diocese's independence in 1133, but after Landolfo's death in 1138, the Archbishop of Ravenna once again asserted his authority. The diocese of Ferrara was eventually elevated to an archdiocese in 1735 by Pope Clement XII, who affirmed its direct dependence on the Holy See.
In 1803, a concordate between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII elevated the archdiocese of Ferrara to the rank of a metropolitan see, with the dioceses of Adria, Comacchio, Mantova, and Verona as its suffragans. However, in 1815, the Congress of Vienna removed the archdiocese's jurisdiction over the dioceses north of the Po River, and the diocese of Comacchio returned to the ecclesiastical province of Ravenna. Despite these changes, the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio retained its status as a metropolitan see.
In 1976, a decree from the Vatican Sacred Congregation of Bishops made the diocese of Ferrara a suffragan of the Archbishop of Bologna, while allowing the Archbishop of Ferrara to retain the title of archbishop. Finally, on September 30, 1986, the diocese of Comacchio was united with the diocese of Ferrara, forming the Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio. This union created the current ecclesiastical structure of the archdiocese, with one bishop, one curia, one cathedral, and one Council of Priests and Consultors.
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Ecclesiastical province of Saint Boniface
As of June 2024, the Catholic Church has approximately 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses. One of these ecclesiastical jurisdictions is the Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Boniface, which is a Latin archdiocese in the southwest part of the civil Province of Manitoba in Canada. The archdiocese is named after Saint Boniface, the patron saint of German soldiers who were among the first settlers in the area.
The Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Boniface officially commenced its existence as the Vicariate Apostolic of the Northwest in 1844, though Bishop Provencher, its titular, had been there with episcopal rank since 1822. In 1847, the North West Vicariate was raised to the status of a diocese, suffragan to Quebec. In 1852, the diocese was renamed the Diocese of St. Boniface. On April 8, 1862, the Apostolic Vicariate of Athabaska Mackenzie was erected from territory split off from the Diocese of Saint-Boniface.
On September 22, 1871, the See of St. Boniface was elevated to the rank of an archbishopric, and the area of the archdiocese was increased. The present-day archdiocese covers much of the province south of Lake Winnipeg and east of the Red River. It is a bilingual French and English archdiocese, with 87 parishes, chaplaincies, and missions, 59 diocesan priests, 23 religious priests, 5 seminarians, and 135,309 Catholics. The cathedral of the archdiocese, Saint Boniface Cathedral, is a minor basilica located in Winnipeg.
The mission at Saint-Boniface began in 1818 when Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis sent Rev. Joseph-Norbert Provencher, Rev. Dumoulin, and seminarian Guilaume Etienne Edge to open a mission on the Red River in present-day Manitoba. The mission was highly successful, and in 1819, Provencher was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec. Construction of Saint-Boniface Cathedral commenced in 1832 and was completed in 1839. In 1871, the Diocese of Saint-Boniface was raised to the status of a metropolitan archdiocese, and Alexandre-Antonin Taché became the first archbishop.
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Frequently asked questions
As of June 21, 2024, there are approximately 3,000 Catholic dioceses in the world.
There are over 652 archdioceses in the Catholic Church.
There are 194 archdioceses/dioceses in the United States.
A diocese is a territorial jurisdiction, whereas an archdiocese is a group of several dioceses across one or more states.
