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.
;Ecclesiastical province of Hartford, comprising the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, as well as Fishers Island in the state of New York.

Bishops' Region II

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

Bishops' Region III

;Ecclesiastical province of Newark, comprising the state of New Jersey.
;Ecclesiastical province of Philadelphia, comprising the state of Pennsylvania.

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.

Bishops' Region V

;Ecclesiastical province of Louisville, comprising the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.
;Ecclesiastical province of Mobile, comprising the states of Alabama and Mississippi.
;Ecclesiastical province of New Orleans, comprising the state of Louisiana.

Bishops' Region VI

;Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati, comprising the state of Ohio.
;Ecclesiastical province of Detroit, comprising the state of Michigan.

Bishops' Region VII

;Ecclesiastical province of Chicago, comprising the state of Illinois.
;Ecclesiastical province of Indianapolis, comprising the state of Indiana.
;Ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee, comprising the state of Wisconsin.

Bishops' Region VIII

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

Bishops' Region IX

;Ecclesiastical province of Dubuque, comprising the state of Iowa.
;Ecclesiastical province of Kansas City, comprising the state of Kansas.
;Ecclesiastical province of Omaha, comprising the state of Nebraska.
;Ecclesiastical province of Saint Louis, comprising the state of Missouri.

Bishops' Region X

;Ecclesiastical province of Galveston-Houston, comprising the east and southeast parts of the state of Texas.
;Ecclesiastical province of San Antonio, comprising the west and north of the state of Texas.
;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.

Bishops' Region XI

;Ecclesiastical province of Los Angeles, comprising the southern part of the state of California.
;Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco, comprising the northern part of the state of California and the state of Hawaii .

Bishops' Region XII

;Ecclesiastical province of Anchorage-Juneau, comprising the state of Alaska.
;Ecclesiastical province of Portland in Oregon, comprising the states of Idaho, Montana and Oregon, except for the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana.
;Ecclesiastical province of Seattle, comprising the state of Washington

Bishops' Region XIII

;Ecclesiastical province of Denver, comprising the states of Colorado and Wyoming, as well as the parts of Yellowstone National Park in the states of Idaho and Montana.
;Ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas, comprising the states of Nevada and Utah.
;Ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe, comprising the states of Arizona and New Mexico.

Bishops' Region XIV

;Ecclesiastical province of Miami, comprising the state of Florida.
;Ecclesiastical province of Atlanta, comprising the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Bishops' "Region" XV – Eastern Catholic Eparchies and Archeparchies

This is not a geographical region and it does not consist of ecclesiastical provinces. Instead, it consists exclusively of US branches of various, generally Europe or Asia-based, particular Eastern Catholic Churches. See the [|Eastern Catholic Churches section] for their particular hierarchies.
;Maronite ChurchEparchy of Brooklyn Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon
;Syriac Catholic ChurchSyrian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark
;Syro-Malankara Catholic ChurchSyro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of St. Mary, Queen of Peace, of the United States of America and Canada
;Armenian Catholic ChurchArmenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in New York
;Melkite Greek Catholic ChurchEparchy of Newton
;Romanian Catholic ChurchEparchy of St. George's in Canton for Romanians
;Ruthenian Catholic Church
Ecclesiastical province of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolitan Church of PittsburghMetropolitan Archeparchy of Pittsburgh
;Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Ecclesiastical Province of PhiladelphiaMetropolitan Archeparchy of Philadelphia
;Chaldean Catholic ChurchEparchy of St. Peter the Apostle of San DiegoEparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit
;Syro-Malabar Catholic Church