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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.
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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 .
This is a growing list of territorial dioceses and ordinariates in communion with the Holy See. There are approximately 3,000 actual (i.e., non-titular) dioceses in the Catholic Church (including the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches). Those dioceses which are (metropolitan or nominal) archdioceses (including archeparchies) are marked in bold type and are also listed at List of ...
After the Mexican–American War, Alta California became United States territory and the Holy See divided the American diocese into US and Mexican sections. On 20 November 1849, with the episcopal residence moved to Monterey, a more central position for the new diocese, the bishopric was formally suppressed, with two successor jurisdictions:
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
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino. The diocese comprises Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in the Southern California. The diocese has 91 parishes, seven missions and five chapels. The mother church for the diocese is Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral in San Bernardino.