List of Catholic dioceses in Brazil

The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil comprises forty-four ecclesiastical provinces each headed by a Metropolitan archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 215 dioceses (including 4 eparchies), 45 archdioceses and 12 territorial prelatures, each headed by a bishop or an archbishop. These 272 divisions make the largest number of Catholic dioceses in any country.

Additionally, Brazil has a Military Ordinariate, the world's only personal apostolic administration (Latin extraordinary form of the Roman Rite), and for Eastern Churches, besides the Ukrainian province, an Ordinariate for the Faithful of Eastern Rites and an Apostolic Exarchate for Armenian Catholics.

Catholic Ecclesiastical provinces of Brazil

Sui iuris Latin Church Jurisdictions

Exempt dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See

Latin (or mixed) Catholic Provinces in Brazil

Ecclesiastical province of Aparecida

Ecclesiastical province of Aracaju

Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará

Ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte

Ecclesiastical province of Botucatu

Ecclesiastical province of Brasília

Ecclesiastical province of Campinas

Ecclesiastical province of Campo Grande

Ecclesiastical province of Cascavel

Ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá

Ecclesiastical province of Curitiba

Ecclesiastical province of Diamantina

Ecclesiastical province of Feira de Santana

Ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis

Ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza

Ecclesiastical province of Goiânia

Ecclesiastical province of Juiz de Fora

Ecclesiastical province of Londrina

Ecclesiastical province of Maceió

Ecclesiastical province of Manaus

Ecclesiastical province of Mariana

Ecclesiastical province of Maringá

Ecclesiastical province of Montes Claros

Ecclesiastical province of Natal

Ecclesiastical province of Niterói

Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife

Ecclesiastical province of Palmas

Ecclesiastical province of Paraíba

Ecclesiastical province of Passo Fundo

Ecclesiastical province of Pelotas

Ecclesiastical province of Porto Alegre

Ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho

Ecclesiastical province of Pouso Alegre

Ecclesiastical province of Ribeirão Preto

Ecclesiastical province of Santa Maria

Ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão

Ecclesiastical province of São Paulo

Ecclesiastical province of São Salvador da Bahia

Ecclesiastical province of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Ecclesiastical province of Sorocaba

Ecclesiastical province of Teresina

Ecclesiastical province of Uberaba

Ecclesiastical province of Vitória

Ecclesiastical province of Vitória da Conquista

Eastern Catholic proper and exempt jurisdictions

Armenian Catholic Church

part of the Armenian Catholic Church (Armenian Rite)

but exempt, directly subject to the Holy See

Ukrainian Greek Catholic (Byzantine Rite) Ecclesiastical province of São João Batista em Curitiba

part of the Eastern particular Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, using its Ukrainian language Byzantine rite

Defunct jurisdictions

excluding those which were simply promoted to existing ones above

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