List of Catholic dioceses in Oceania
This is a List of the Roman, Anglican, and Eastern Catholic dioceses in Oceania.
Because Oceania is one of the more sparsely populated areas of the world, the majority of its dioceses are located in Australia and New Zealand, although they range as far as the Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to Tasmania.
Episcopal Conference of Australia
Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
- Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, covering the federal district Canberra and adjacent part of New South Wales
- Archdiocese of Hobart, covering Tasmania
- Military Ordinariate of Australia, for the armed forces
- Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, with see in Maylands, Western Australia (for former Anglicans in Australia and Japan)
Ecclesiastical Province of Adelaide
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Adelaide, in South Australia
- Diocese of Darwin, covering the Northern Territory
- Diocese of Point Pirie, in South Australia
Ecclesiastical Province of Brisbane
(covering Queensland)
Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne
(covering Victoria state)
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Melbourne
- Diocese of Ballarat
- Diocese of Sale
- Diocese of Sandhurst
- Ukrainian Catholic Diocese of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne (Ukrainian Catholic Church Byzantine Rite Eparchy (Diocese), with cathedral see in North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; also covers New Zealand and Oceania
Ecclesiastical Province of Perth
(covering Western Australia)
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perth, also covers Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Ecclesiastical Province of Sydney
(most of New South Wales)
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sydney, also covers Norfolk Island
Other Eastern dioceses
- Maronite Diocese of Saint Maron of Sydney, with cathedral see in Redfern, New South Wales; immediately subject to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch (in Lebanon; Antiochian Rite)
- Greek-Melkite Diocese of Saint Michael’s of Sydney, with cathedral see in Darlington, New South Wales; also covers New Zealand; immediately subject to the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch (in Syria; a Byzantine Rite)
- Syro-Malabar Diocese of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne, with cathedral see in Melbourne, Victoria; immediately subject to the Major Archbishop of Ernakulam–Angamaly (in India; a Syro-Oriental Rite)
- Chaldean Diocese of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney, with cathedral see at Bossley Park, New South Wales; also covers New Zealand; immediately subject to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon (in Iraq; Chaldean Rite, also Syro-Oriental)
Episcopal Conference of New Zealand
- See Australia for the Chaldean Catholic, Melkite and Ukrainian Catholic dioceses competent for both countries, with sees in Sydney, Syndey viz. Melbourne
- cfr. infra Episcopal Conference of the [South] Pacific for three New Zealand island dependencies, notably the diocese of Raratonga (on the Cook Islands, also covering Niue) and the Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau, both suffragans of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Suva
- Exempt, i.e. Immediately subject to the Holy See
- Military Ordinariate of New Zealand, for the armed forces
Ecclesiastical Province of Wellington
Episcopal Conference of the Pacific
- Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See
- For the Ukrainian Catholics, see Australia, under Melbourne
- The United States Minor Outlying Islands (U.S. Minor Islands) such as Wake, Midway, Johnston, which are Unincorporated Territories of USA, are administered by the US Military Ordinariate Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States at Washington, D.C.
- Honolulu, on and for Hawaii, however is a suffragan diocese in the province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco (California, USA)
Ecclesiastical Province of Agaña
Ecclesiastical Province of Nouméa
Ecclesiastical Province of Papeete
Ecclesiastical Province of Samoa-Apia
Ecclesiastical Province of Suva
Episcopal Conference of Papua New Guinea
Ecclesiastical Province of Madang
Ecclesiastical Province of Mount Hagen
Ecclesiastical Province of Port Moresby
Ecclesiastical Province of Rabaul
Episcopal Conference of the Solomon Islands
Ecclesiastical Province of Honaira
See also
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