List of Catholic dioceses in Malaysia
The Catholic Church in Malaysia is composed of 3 ecclesiastical provinces, each of which has an archdiocese and 2 suffragan dioceses.
Current jurisdictions
They are all Latin (Roman Rite) and part of the Episcopal Conference of Episcopal Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, which also includes the exempt jurisdictions for those small neighbor countries (Archdiocese of Singapore and Apostolic Vicariate of Brunei Darussalam)
Ecclesiastical Province of Kuala Lumpur
Ecclesiastical Province of Kuching
Ecclesiastical Province of Kota Kinabalu
Former jurisdictions
The Archdiocese of Malacca-Singapore was split into the Archdiocese of Singapore and the Diocese of Malacca-Johor in 1972, seven years after Singapore became independent.
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