{{short description, None The Catholic Church in Lithuania is currently entirely Latin and composed of * two ecclesiastical provinces, with a total of five suffragan dioceses. * the exempt military ordinariate.

Episcopal Conference of Lithuania

Exempt jurisdiction ''sui iuris''

Military Ordinariate of Lithuania The Military Ordinariate of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos kariuomenės ordinariatas) is a military ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church. Immediately subject to the Holy See, it provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the Lithuanian Arme ...

(Lietuvos kariuomenės ordinariatas)

Ecclesiastical Province of Kaunas

* Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kaunas **

Diocese of Šiauliai In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

** Diocese of Telšiai **

Diocese of Vilkaviškis In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

Ecclesiastical Province of Vilnius

* Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vilnius ** Diocese of Kaišiadorys ** Diocese of Panevėžys

Defunct jurisdictions

There are no

titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

s. All Latin defunct jurisdictions have current successors, unlike the only

Eastern Catholic The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous ('' sui iuris'') particular churches of t ...

diocesan see(s). The

Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Vilnius Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Vilnius (or Vilnius of the Ukrainians) and its successor Žyrovyci of the Ukrainians were the only eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) in Lithuania of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (''sui iuris'', Byzantine Rit ...

(

Byzantine Rite The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople. Th ...

, since 1809) was suppressed in 1828 and immediately replaced by the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Žyrovyci, only to be suppressed again in 1833, without successor.

Sources and external links

GCatholic
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/dlt.html *

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

Catholic dioceses