List Of Catholic Bishops Of The United States

The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including its five inhabited territories.

The U.S. Catholic Church comprises:

* 176 Latin Church dioceses led by bishops
* 18 Eastern Catholic eparchies led by eparchs
* the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA , for military personnel
* the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, a special diocese of Anglican converts to Catholicism. If the personal ordinary is not a bishop, he is the equivalent of a diocesan bishop under canon law.

Organization

The 176 Latin Church dioceses in the United States are divided into 32 ecclesiastical provinces. Each province has a metropolitan archdiocese led by an archbishop, and at least one suffragan diocese. In some cases, a titular archbishop is named diocesan bishop of a diocese that is not a metropolitan archdiocese, for example, Archbishop Celestine Damiano, Bishop of Camden (New Jersey). One archbishop—that of the Archdiocese for the Military Services—is not a metropolitan.

In most archdioceses and some large dioceses, one or more auxiliary bishops serve in association with the diocesan bishop. Some archdioceses and dioceses have coadjutor archbishops or bishops who are normally appointed to assist an elderly or ailing archbishop or bishop. There are several dioceses in the United States' other four inhabited territories. In the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the bishops in the six dioceses (one metropolitan archdiocese and five suffragan dioceses) 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.

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).

The United States contains two Eastern Catholic metropoliae, each led by a metropolitan archbishop:

* The four Byzantine Catholic (Ruthenian) eparchies constitute one metropolia, with Pittsburgh as the metropolitan see.
* The four Ukrainian Catholic eparchies constitute the second metropolia, with Philadelphia as the metropolitan see.

Cardinals

As of October 2022, six Latin Church metropolitan archbishops in the United States are also cardinals:

* Boston ( Seán O'Malley)
* Chicago ( Blase Cupich)
* Galveston-Houston (Daniel DiNardo)
* Newark (Joseph Tobin)
* New York ( Timothy Dolan)
* Washington (Wilton Daniel Gregory)

Four American archdioceses have retired archbishops who served as cardinal-archbishop of their archdiocese:

* Detroit (Adam Maida)
* Los Angeles (Roger Mahony)
* Philadelphia (Justin Rigali)
* Washington (Donald Wuerl)

One suffragan diocese is led by a cardinal:

* San Diego ( Robert W. McElroy)
Three American archdioceses have former archbishops who were created cardinals after they completed their tenures as diocesan archbishops:

* Baltimore (Edwin O'Brien)
* Denver ( James Stafford)
* St. Louis ( Raymond Burke)

Latin Church bishops

Bishops emeriti

Eastern Catholic eparchs

Metropolia of Philadelphia for the Ukrainians

:''See: :Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Philadelphia''
The Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Province of Philadelphia consists of four eparchies of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and covers the entire United States.

Metropolia of Pittsburgh for the Ruthenians

:''See: :Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of Pittsburgh''
The Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Province of Pittsburgh is a '' sui iuris'' metropolia, traditionally linked to the Ruthenian Catholic Church. The metropolia consists of four eparchies of the Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Church and covers the entire United States, with jurisdiction for all Ruthenian Catholics in the United States, as well as other Byzantine Rite Catholics without an established hierarchy in the country.

Eastern Catholic eparchs whose eparchies are immediately subject to the Holy See

The other Eastern Catholic Churches with eparchies (dioceses) or exarchates established in the United States are not grouped into metropoliae. All are immediately subject to the Holy See, with limited oversight by the head of their respective ''sui iuris'' churches.

Eparchs emeriti

Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

American bishops serving outside the United States

Bishops serving in Vatican City

* Raymond Leo Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
* Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P., adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
*Kevin Joseph Farrell, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church and prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life
* James Michael Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

Bishops emeriti serving in Vatican City

* Edwin Frederick O'Brien, grand master emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
* James Francis Stafford, major penitentiary emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary

Bishops serving in Vatican Diplomatic Corps

* Charles Daniel Balvo, apostolic nuncio to Australia (Archdiocese of New York)
* Michael Wallace Banach, apostolic nuncio to Hungary (Diocese of Worcester)
* Charles John Brown, apostolic nuncio to the Philippines (Archdiocese of New York)
* Joseph Marino, president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (Diocese of Birmingham)
* Peter Brian Wells, apostolic nuncio to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini (Diocese of Tulsa)

Bishops emeriti serving in Vatican Diplomatic Corps

* Edward Joseph Adams, apostolic nuncio emeritus to Great Britain (Archdiocese of Philadelphia)
* Michael A. Blume, S.V.D., apostolic nuncio emeritus to Hungary (Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend and the Chicago Province of the Society of the Divine Word)
* James Green, apostolic nuncio emeritus to Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway (Archdiocese of Philadelphia)
* Thomas Edward Gullickson, apostolic nuncio emeritus to Switzerland and Liechtenstein (Diocese of Sioux Falls)

Bishops serving in foreign sees

* Christopher Cardone, O.P., archbishop of Honiara (Solomon Islands)
* Arthur Colgan, C.S.C., auxiliary bishop of Chosica (Peru)
* Robert Herman Flock, bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco (Bolivia)
* Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., bishop of Chiclayo (Peru)

Bishops emerti serving in foreign sees

* Gordon Bennett, S.J., bishop emeritus of Mandeville (Jamaica)
* Ernest Bertrand Boland, O.P., bishop emeritus of Multan (Pakistan)
* Luis Morgan Casey, vicar apostolic emeritus of Pando (Bolivia)

Non-American bishops serving in the United States

* Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S. ( Nunciature of the Holy See in Washington, D.C.)
* Gabriele Giordano Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations

See also

* Appointment of Catholic bishops
* Catholic Church and politics in the United States
* Catholic Church by country
* Catholic Church in the United States
* Christianity in the United States
* Global organisation of the Catholic Church
* Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
* Historical list of the Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico
* Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
* History of Roman Catholicism in the United States
* List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
* List of Catholic dioceses in the United States
* List of heads of the diplomatic missions of the Holy See
* List of Roman Catholic apostolic administrations
* List of Roman Catholic archdioceses (by country and continent)
* List of Roman Catholic dioceses (alphabetical)
* List of Roman Catholic dioceses (structured view) (including episcopal conferences and USCCB regions)
* List of Roman Catholic military dioceses
* List of Roman Catholic titular sees

Footnotes

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