Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States

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The Roman Catholic Church in the United States

The Catholic Church in the United States is divided into 177 Latin-rite dioceses and 17 Eastern Catholic eparchies led by diocesan bishops or eparchs, plus the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA. In addition, there is an apostolic exarchate similar to an apostolic vicariate in the Latin Church — the Syro-Malankara Catholic Exarchate in the United States. Although not the same as an eparchy (diocese), an exarchate is still led by a bishop. Dioceses led by archbishops are called archdioceses. In archdioceses and some large dioceses, one or more auxiliary bishops serve in association with the diocesan bishop. There are thirty-two Latin-rite and two Eastern Catholic archbishops who serve as metropolitan archbishops of their respective Latin-rite ecclesiastical provinces or Eastern Catholic metropoliae. One archbishop — that of the Archdiocese for the Military Services — is not a metropolitan.

All active and retired bishops in the United States and the Territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands — diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary — are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

In addition to the 195 dioceses, there are several dioceses in the nation's other four overseas dependencies. The bishops in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico form their own episcopal conference, the Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña. The bishops in U.S. insular areas in the Pacific Ocean — the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Territory of American Samoa, and the Territory of Guam — are members of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.

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See also: List of the Catholic bishops of the United Statespl:Kategoria:Archidiecezje rzymskokatolickie w Stanach Zjednoczonych

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