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The Catholic Church in the United States has a total of 196 particular churches in the 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands: 33 territorial archdioceses, 143 territorial dioceses, the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (serving members of the US Armed Forces and Diplomatic Corps, and those in facilities of the ...
Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) divides the non-exempt dioceses of the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) into fourteen geographical regions—termed "Bishops' Regions" for the Latin Church provinces—and a fifteenth "region" that consists of the Eastern Catholic eparchies.
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter was established January 1, 2012, to serve former Anglican groups and clergy in the United States who sought to become Catholic. Similar to a diocese though national in scope, the ordinariate is based in Houston, Texas, and includes parishes and communities across the United States that are ...
The other Eastern Catholic Churches with eparchies (dioceses) or exarchates established in the United States are not grouped into metropoliae. All are immediately subject to the Holy See, with limited oversight by the head of their respective sui iuris church .
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Diocese of California may refer to the following US ecclesiastical jurisdictions covering California : Episcopal Diocese of California Roman Catholic Diocese of California, also called the Diocese of Both Californias, which became the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California
The diocese is made up of 87 parishes and 20 Catholic schools, which are within the counties of Fresno, Kern, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare and Kings. The parish church, said Brennan was ...
The Santa Barbara Pastoral Region is a division of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the Roman Catholic Church. It covers Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in California, an area with a population in excess of 1.2 million. [1] [2] As of 2024, the pastoral region has 37 parishes, seven high schools, 18 elementary schools and four Spanish missions.