Currently there are 33 Catholic dioceses in Australia, consist of 5 metropolitan archdioceses, 21 suffragan dioceses, 2 non-metropolitan archdioceses, and 5 Eastern Rite dioceses. In addition there is a

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and a

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List of dioceses

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

Ecclesiastical Province of Adelaide

* Archdiocese of Adelaide **

Diocese of Darwin 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 associate ...

** Diocese of Port Pirie

Ecclesiastical Province of Brisbane

* Archdiocese of Brisbane ** Diocese of Cairns ** Diocese of Rockhampton ** Diocese of Toowoomba **

Diocese of Townsville The Roman Catholic Diocese of Townsville is a suffragan diocese, suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane, Archdiocese of Brisbane, erected in 1930, covering North Queensland, North Queensland, Australia. It was ...

Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne

Archdiocese of Melbourne The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin Rite metropolitan archdiocese in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne, a suffragan diocese of Archdiocese of Sydney, the diocese was elev ...

** Diocese of Ballarat ** Diocese of Sale ** Diocese of Sandhurst

Ecclesiastical Province of Perth

Archdiocese of Perth The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perth is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia covering the Greater Perth, Goldfields-Esperance, Peel and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia. St Mary's ...

** Diocese of Broome ** Diocese of Bunbury ** Diocese of Geraldton

Ecclesiastical Province of Sydney

Archdiocese of Sydney The Archdiocese of Sydney ( la, Archidioecesis Sydneyensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church. Its episcopal see is Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Erected in 1842, the archdiocese is the metr ...

** Diocese of Armidale ** Diocese of Bathurst **

Diocese of Broken Bay The Roman Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, covering the North Shore and Northern Beaches of greater metropolitan Sydney, and the Broken Bay and Central Coast regions of New South W ...

** Diocese of Lismore ** Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle ** Diocese of Parramatta ** Diocese of Wagga Wagga **

Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes 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 associate ...

** Diocese of Wollongong

Immediately subject to the Holy See

* Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn *

Archdiocese of Hobart The Archdiocese of Hobart is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia located in Hobart and covering Tasmania, Australia. Immediately exempt to the Holy See The Holy See ( lat, Sancta S ...

Eastern Rite Dioceses

* Chaldean: Eparchy of St Thomas * Maronite: Eparchy of St Maron * Melkite: Eparchy of St Michael Archangel * Syro-Malabar: Eparchy of St Thomas the Apostle * Ukrainian: Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul

Ordinariates

Military Ordinariate of Australia The Catholic Diocese of the Australian Military Services, is a military ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church immediately subject to the Holy See. It was established in 1969 and maintains its Chancery office in Canberra, ACT. It is a Dioces ...

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a personal ordinariate of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church primarily within the territory of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference for groups of Anglicans who desire fu ...

References

External links

Dioceses - Catholic Church in Australia

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