This is a list of the Catholic dioceses in Europe, i.e. dioceses of the Catholic Church. In Europe, there are a large number of dioceses principally centred in the countries of Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, and Poland. Italy has the largest number of dioceses per capita of any country, although Brazil has more in total.
An episcopal conference, or bishops' conference, is an official assembly of all the bishops in a defined geographic territory, usually a single country. Andorra and San Marino are part of neighboring foreign dioceses, and so are covered by the Spanish and Italian conferences, respectively. A single conference covers the five nordic countries, and dioceses in Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco are not part of any episcopal conference. In the British Isles, one conference covers the whole of Ireland, a second covers England and Wales (and the crown dependencies), and a third conference covers Scotland.
Dioceses are usually organized into ecclesiastical provinces headed by the archbishop seated in the designated metropolitan archdiocese. Bishops and dioceses subordinated to the metropolitan archbishop are called suffragans. However, not all archbishops are metropolitans. Sometimes an archdiocesan see is suffragan to a metropolitan archbishop, but retains its rank for historical reasons. Some dioceses and archdioceses are not suffragan to a metropolitan see, but are directly subject to the Holy See in Rome.
List of Dioceses
This list is organized (when applicable) by episcopal conference and ecclesiastical province. Latin Church dioceses are listed in regular font. Eastern Catholic dioceses are listed in italics, only when suffragan to a Latin jurisdiction. Dioceses of sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches are not listed.
- Ecclesiastical province
- Metropolitan archdiocese
- Suffragan dioceses (Latin Church)
- Suffragan dioceses (Eastern Catholic)
Episcopal Conference of Albania
- Ecclesiastical Province of Shkodër-Pult
- Ecclesiastical Province of Tiranë-Durrës
Episcopal Conference of Austria
- Ecclesiastical Province of Salzburg
- Ecclesiastical Province of Wien
- Immediately subject to the Holy See
Episcopal Conference of Belarus
- Ecclesiastical Province of Minsk-Mohilev
Episcopal Conference of Belgium
- Ecclesiastical Province of Mechelen-Brussels
Episcopal Conference of Bosnia
- Ecclesiastical Province of Sarajevo
Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria
- Immediately subject to the Holy See
Episcopal Conference of Croatia
- Ecclesiastical Province of Rijeka
- Ecclesiastical Province of Sirmio
- Ecclesiastical Province of Split-Makarska
- Archdiocese of Split-Makarska
- Diocese of Dubrovnik
- Diocese of Hvar
- Diocese of Kotor (in Montenegro)
- Diocese of Šibenik
- Ecclesiastical Province of Zagreb
Episcopal Conference of the Czech Republic
- Ecclesiastical province of Bohemia
- Ecclesiastical province of Moravia (Archbishopric of Moravia)
Episcopal Conference of England and Wales
- Ecclesiastical province of Birmingham
- Ecclesiastical province of Cardiff
- Ecclesiastical province of Liverpool
- Ecclesiastical province of Southwark
- Ecclesiastical province of Westminster
Episcopal Conference of France
See also: Bishops' Conference of France- Ecclesiastical Province of Besançon
- Ecclesiastical Province of Bordeaux
- Ecclesiastical Province of Clermont
- Ecclesiastical Province of Dijon
- Ecclesiastical Province of Lille
- Ecclesiastical Province of Lyon
- Ecclesiastical Province of Marseille
- Ecclesiastical Province of Montpellier
- Ecclesiastical Province of Paris
- Ecclesiastical Province of Poitiers
- Ecclesiastical Province of Reims
- Ecclesiastical Province of Rennes
- Ecclesiastical Province of Rouen
- Ecclesiastical Province of Toulouse
- Ecclesiastical Province of Tours
- Immediately subject to the Holy See
Episcopal Conference of Germany
- Ecclesiastical province of Bamburg
- Ecclesiastical province of Berlin
- Ecclesiastical province of Hamburg
- Middle German ecclesiastical province
(aka Ecclesiastical province of Paderborn)
- Ecclesiastical province of Munich and Freising
- Rhenish ecclesiastical province
(aka Ecclesiastical province of Cologne)
- Upper Rhenish ecclesiastical province
(aka Ecclesiastical province of Freiburg im Breisgau)
Episcopal Conference of Greece
- Ecclesiastical Province of Corfù, Zante e Cefalonia
- Ecclesiastical Province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos
Episcopal Conference of Hungary
- Ecclesiastical Province of Eger
- Ecclesiastical Province of Esztergom-Budapest
- Ecclesiastical Province of Kalocsa-Kecskemét
- Ecclesiastical Province of Veszprém
Episcopal Conference of Ireland
- Ecclesiastical province of Armagh
- Ecclesiastical province of Cashel
- Ecclesiastical province of Dublin
- Ecclesiastical province of Tuam
Episcopal Conference of Italy
- Ecclesiastical Province of Agrigento
- Ecclesiastical Province of Ancona-Osimo
- Ecclesiastical Province of Bari-Bitonto
- Ecclesiastical Province of Benevento
- Ecclesiastical Province of Bologna
- Ecclesiastical Province of Campobasso-Boiano
- Ecclesiastical Province of Cagliari
- Ecclesiastical Province of Catanzaro-Squillace
- Ecclesiastical Province of Catania
- Ecclesiastical Province of Chieti-Vasto
- Ecclesiastical Province of Cosenza-Bisignano
- Ecclesiastical Province of Fermo
- Ecclesiastical Province of Florence
- Ecclesiastical Province of Foggia-Bovino
- Ecclesiastical Province of Genoa
- Ecclesiastical Province of Gorizia
- Ecclesiastical Province of L'Aquila
- Ecclesiastical Province of Lecce
- Ecclesiastical Province of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
- Ecclesiastical Province of Milan
- Ecclesiastical Province of Modena-Nonantola
- Ecclesiastical Province of Naples
- Archdiocese of Naples
- Archdiocese of Capua
- Archdiocese of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia
- Diocese of Acerra
- Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo
- Diocese of Aversa
- Diocese of Caserta
- Diocese of Ischia
- Diocese of Nola
- Diocese of Pozzuoli
- Diocese of Sessa Aurunca
- Diocese of Teano-Calvi
- Territorial Prelature of Pompei o Beatissima Vergine Maria del SS.mo Rosario
- Ecclesiastical Province of Oristano
- Ecclesiastical Province of Palermo
- Ecclesiastical Province of Perugia-Città della Pieve
- Ecclesiastical Province of Pesaro
- Ecclesiastical Province of Pescara-Penne
- Ecclesiastical Province of Pisa
- Ecclesiastical Province of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo
- Ecclesiastical Province of Ravenna-Cervia
- Ecclesiastical Province of Reggio Calabria-Bova
- Ecclesiastical Province of Rome
- Diocese of Rome
- Suburbicarian See of Albano
- Suburbicarian See of Frascati
- Suburbicarian See of Palestrina
- Suburbicarian See of Porto-Santa Rufina
- Suburbicarian See of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto
- Suburbicarian See of Velletri-Segni
- Archdiocese of Gaeta
- Diocese of Anagni-Alatri
- Diocese of Civita Castellana
- Diocese of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia
- Diocese of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino
- Diocese of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno
- Diocese of Rieti
- Diocese of Sora-Aquino-Pontecorvo
- Diocese of Tivoli
- Diocese of Viterbo
- Territorial Abbey of Montecassino
- Territorial Abbey of San Paolo fuori le Mura
- Territorial Abbey of Subiaco
- Ecclesiastical Province of Sassari
- Ecclesiastical Province of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno
- Ecclesiastical Province of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
- Ecclesiastical Province of Siracusa
- Ecclesiastical Province of Taranto
- Ecclesiastical Province of Turin
- Ecclesiastical Province of Trento
- Ecclesiastical Province of Udine
- Ecclesiastical Province of Venice
- Ecclesiastical Province of Vercelli
Episcopal Conference of Malta
- Ecclesiastical Province of Malta
Episcopal Conference of the Netherlands
- Ecclesiastical Province of Utrecht
Episcopal Conference of Poland
- Ecclesiastical province of Białystok
- Ecclesiastical province of Częstochowa
- Ecclesiastical province of Gdańsk
- Ecclesiastical province of Gniezno
- Ecclesiastical province of Katowice
- Ecclesiastical province of Kraków
- Ecclesiastical province of Łódź
- Ecclesiastical province of Lublin
- Ecclesiastical province of Poznań
- Ecclesiastical province of Przemyśl
- Ecclesiastical province of Szczecin-Kamień
- Ecclesiastical province of Warmia
- Ecclesiastical province of Warszawa
- Ecclesiastical province of Wrocław
- Metropolis of Przemyśl–Warsaw (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
Episcopal Conference of Portugal
- Ecclesiastical Province of Lisboa
- Ecclesiastical Province of Braga
- Ecclesiastical Province of Évora
Episcopal Conference of Romania
- The Latin rite Ecclesiastical Province of Bucharest
Episcopal Conference of Scandinavia
- Immediately subject to the Holy See
Episcopal Conference of Scotland
- Ecclesiastical province of Glasgow
- Ecclesiastical province of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
Episcopal Conference of Serbia
- Ecclesiastical Province of Beograd
Episcopal Conference of Slovakia
- Ecclesiastical Province of Bratislava
- Ecclesiastical Province of Košice
Episcopal Conference of Slovenia
- Ecclesiastical Province of Ljubljana
- Ecclesiastical Province of Maribor
Episcopal Conference of Spain
- Ecclesiastical province of Barcelona
- Ecclesiastical province of Burgos
- Ecclesiastical province of Granada
- Ecclesiastical province of Madrid
- Ecclesiastical province of Mérida-Badajoz
- Ecclesiastical province of Oviedo
- Ecclesiastical province of Pamplona
- Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Compostela
- Ecclesiastical province of Seville
- Ecclesiastical province of Tarragona
- Ecclesiastical province of Toledo
- Ecclesiastical province of Valencia
- Ecclesiastical province of Valladolid
- Ecclesiastical province of Zaragoza
Swiss Bishop's Conference
- Immediately subject to the Holy See
- Diocese of Basel
- Diocese of Chur
- Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg
- Diocese of Lugano
- Diocese of Sankt Gallen
- Diocese of Sion
Episcopal Conference of Ukraine
- Ecclesiastical province of Lviv
- Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
- Metropolis of Lviv (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
- Metropolis of Ternopil – Zboriv (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
- Metropolis of Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
Immediately Subject to the Holy See
Under the direct authority of the Holy See
- Croatia
- Estonia
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Romania
- Serbia
See also
- Catholic Church by country
- Catholic Church in Africa
- Catholic Church in Asia
- Catholic Church in North America
- Catholic Church in Latin America
- Catholic Church in Oceania
- List of Dioceses in Europe:
- Roman Catholicism in Australia
References
- Hanna, Alfred. "Union Between Christians".
- "Austrian". Austrian Bishops' Conference. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- "Wettingen-Mehrerau Territorial Abbey". Austrian Bishops' Conference. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- "Католическа Църква - - Католическа църква в България". www.catholic-bg.org. Retrieved 30 Sep 2012.
- Jurisdiction includes the Isle of Man.
- Jurisdiction includes the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
- "Évêques et diocèses en France". www.eglise.catholique.fr. Retrieved 24 Sep 2012.
- Jurisdiction includes San Marino.
- Jurisdiction includes Andorra.
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