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The Texas Catholic Church comprises 15 Latin Church dioceses and one personal ordinariate led by a bishop. The 15 Latin dioceses are divided into two ecclesiastical provinces . Each province has a metropolitan archdiocese led by an archbishop , and six, Galveston-Houston, or seven, San Antonio, suffragan dioceses.
Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
That same year, the Vatican removed Texas from the Mexican Diocese of Linares o Nueva León and created the prefecture apostolic of Texas, covering the entire republic. Pope Gregory XVI named John Timon as the prefect of Texas. [10] In 1841, Gregory XVI upgraded the prefecture to the Vicariate Apostolic of Texas, naming Jean-Marie Odin as the ...
The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States. The list also includes bishops in American territories and commonwealths, including Puerto Rico , the Northern Mariana Islands , American Samoa , Guam , and the U.S. Virgin Islands .
Many smaller countries, as well as large countries with small Catholic populations, lack (the need for) ecclesiastical province(s) and hence for large Metropolitan archdioceses and may rather have canonical jurisdictions that are immediately subject to the Holy See – dioceses, ordinariates, apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates ...
The Annuario Pontificio provides the Catholic Church's list of popes. As historical questions are reinterpreted by each successive pope, they are recognized in the Annuario Pontificio . For example, the 1942 Annuario Pontificio recognized the decisions of the Council of Pisa (1409), listing three popes for the period: Gregory XII (1406–1409 ...
As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris ...
As of 2024, the prefectures apostolic were only 38, of which the vast majority (28) were in China (many vacant), where development of the Catholic Church, including that of the prefectures, had long been hindered by actions of the government. The 10 other prefectures included a newly created one for Azerbaijan, 4 more in Asia, 3 in Africa, 1 in ...