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
Ecclesiastical province of Castries
Ecclesiastical province of Fort-de-France
Ecclesiastical province of Kingston in Jamaica
Ecclesiastical province of Nassau
Ecclesiastical province of Port of Spain
Episcopal Conference of Cuba
Ecclesiastical province of San Cristobal de la Habana
Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Cuba
Ecclesiastical province of Camagüey
Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic
Ecclesiastical province of Santo Domingo
Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de los Caballeros
Episcopal Conference of Haiti
Ecclesiastical province of Cap-Haïtien
Ecclesiastical province of Port-au-Prince
Puerto Rican Episcopal Conference
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
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Ecclesiastical Province of Washington
Footnotes
- ↑ Cheney, David M. "Catholic Church in Puerto Rico". Retrieved 27 July 2009.