The Catholic Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands is organised into two ecclesiastical provinces: the Archdiocese of Utrecht for the Netherlands proper and Port of Spain for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Similarly, there are two episcopal conferences in the Kingdom, that of the Netherlands proper and that of Antilles in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.

Ecclesiastical Province of the Netherlands

In the Netherlands proper, there are 6 suffragan dioceses of the

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Archdiocese of Utrecht. * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Utrecht ** Diocese of Breda ** Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden ** Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam ** Diocese of Roermond **

Diocese of Rotterdam The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rotterdam is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in South Holland province of the Netherlands. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht. Since 2011, the b ...

** Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch)

''Sui iuris'' Jurisdictions

* Military Ordinariate of the Netherlands

Ecclesiastical province of Port of Spain

In the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, the Church has a single diocese, the

Diocese of Willemstad The Roman Catholic Diocese of Willemstad ( la, Dioecesis Gulielmopolitana; nl, Bisdom Willemstad; pap, Diosesano (di Obispado) di Willemstad) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The diocese encompasses t ...

which is a

suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...

of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain. Willemstad is part of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.

Overlapping foreign competence

* ''

Diocese of Saint-Vladimir-le-Grand de Paris The Eparchy of Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris (french: Éparchie Saint Vladimir-le-Grand de Paris des Ukrainiens) is an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a ''sui iuris'' church of the Roman Catholic Church. Its territory encomp ...

for Eastern Catholics in France, Benelux etc.

Former jurisdictions

Titular see

* Diocese of Maastricht

Other

''(excludes suppressed precursors with see-identical successors) * Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia (Holland) (first as independent mission; not to be confused with its East Indies counterpart on Java) * Diocese of Deventer * Diocese of Grave-Nijmegen * Diocese of Haarlem * Diocese of Leeuwarden * Apostolic Vicariate of Limburg *

Diocese of Middelburg The Roman Catholic Diocese of Middelburg was a short-lived (1559-1603) Latin Catholic suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Utrecht, with episcopal see at Middelburg, on Walcheren (former) island in the Dutch Ze ...

* Apostolic Vicariate of Ravenstein-Megen

External links and sources

Catholic-Hierarchy entry

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