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 edit
Ecclesiastical province of Castries edit
- Archdiocese of Castries
- Diocese of Kingstown
- Diocese of Roseau
- Diocese of Saint George's in Grenada
- Diocese of Saint John's - Basseterre
Ecclesiastical province of Fort-de-France edit
Ecclesiastical province of Kingston in Jamaica edit
- Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica
- Diocese of Mandeville
- Diocese of Montego Bay
- Mission Sui Iuris of Cayman Islands
Ecclesiastical province of Nassau edit
Ecclesiastical province of Port of Spain edit
Episcopal Conference of Cuba edit
Ecclesiastical province of San Cristobal de la Habana edit
Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Cuba edit
- Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
- Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa
- Diocese of Holguín
- Diocese of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo
Ecclesiastical province of Camagüey edit
Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic edit
Ecclesiastical province of Santo Domingo edit
- Archdiocese of Santo Domingo
- Diocese of Baní
- Diocese of Barahona
- Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey
- Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana
- Diocese of San Pedro de Macorís
Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de los Caballeros edit
Episcopal Conference of Haiti edit
Ecclesiastical province of Cap-Haïtien edit
- Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien
- Diocese of Fort-Liberté
- Diocese of Granada
- Diocese of Hinche
- Diocese of Les Gonaïves
- Diocese of Port-de-Paix
Ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince edit
Puerto Rican Episcopal Conference edit
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 edit
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops edit
Ecclesiastical Province of Washington edit
Footnotes edit
- ^ Cheney, David M. "Catholic Church in Puerto Rico". Retrieved 27 July 2009.