List of Roman Catholic dioceses in the Caribbean

The Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean comprises thirteen ecclesiastical provinces — each headed by a metropolitan archbishop — plus one diocese that is part of a non-Caribbean province. Each province has an archdiocese (headed by an archbishop) and one or more suffragan dioceses (headed by a bishop). Each diocesan bishop, coadjutor bishop, and auxiliary bishop — active and retired — belongs to one of the episcopal conferences listed below.

There are also 2 Mission sui iuris in the Caribbean. All of those listed are members of the Antilles Episcopal Conference, including three, the Diocese of Georgetown, Diocese of Cayenne and the Diocese of Paramaribo which are located in South America in the dependencies Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname respectively. Also a member of the Antilles Conference is the Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan on the mainland in Belize.

Each of the Greater Antilles — Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico — has its own conference. An exception is the Diocese of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands, whose bishop is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and an Observer to the Antilles Conference.

Antilles Episcopal Conference

Ecclesiastical province of Castries

Ecclesiastical province of Fort-de-France

Ecclesiastical province of Kingston in Jamaica

Ecclesiastical province of Nassau

Ecclesiastical province of Port of Spain

Episcopal Conference of Cuba

Ecclesiastical province of San Cristobal de la Habana

Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Cuba

Ecclesiastical province of Camagüey

Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic

Ecclesiastical province of Santo Domingo

Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de los Caballeros

Episcopal Conference of Haiti

Ecclesiastical province of Cap-Haïtien

Ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince

Puerto Rican Episcopal Conference

The Metropolitan Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico comprises the United States Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (The bishops of the province form their own episcopal conference, the Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña.)[1]

Ecclesiastical Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico

See: List of the Catholic bishops of the United States#Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Ecclesiastical Province of Washington

Footnotes

  1. Cheney, David M. "Catholic Church in Puerto Rico". Retrieved 27 July 2009.

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