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Ordinariate for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Austria, vested in the (Latin Church) Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Vienna, for Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic churches; Ecclesiastical Province of Salzburg. Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg, primatial see of Austria, a former prince-bishopric Diocese of Feldkirch; Diocese of Graz-Seckau
In the Catholic Church, a province consists of a metropolitan archdiocese and one or more (1-13) suffragan dioceses headed by diocesan bishops or territorial prelatures and missions sui iuris. The archbishop of the metropolitan see is the metropolitan of the province. The delimitation of church provinces in the Latin Church is reserved to the ...
Archdioceses should not be categorised as ecclesiastical provinces, but in Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 35 subcategories, out of 35 total.
The pastor of any particular church other than an ordinariate must be episcopally ordained, but his title conforms to that of his jurisdiction: the pastor of an archdiocese is an archbishop, the pastor of a diocese is a bishop, the pastor of an archeparchy is an archeparch, the pastor of an eparchy is an eparch, and the pastor of an exarchate is an exarch.
An ecclesiastical region (Latin: regio ecclesiastica) is a formally organised geographical group of dioceses, ecclesiastical provinces or parishes, without a proper Ordinary as such, in Catholic or Protestant Churches.
As of May 2017, the Catholic Church in Italy is divided into sixteen ecclesiastical regions. While they are similar to the 20 civil regions of the Italian state, there are some differences. Most ecclesiastical regions are in turn divided into a number of ecclesiastical provinces. The provinces are in turn divided into a number of dioceses.
Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in the Philippines (16 C, 2 P) Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Port of Spain (5 C, 6 P) Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Portugal (3 C, 3 P)
The Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches in North America and Central America comprise 14 episcopal conferences, which together include 100 ecclesiastical provinces, each of which is headed by a metropolitan archbishop.