List of Catholic dioceses in Oceania
This is a list of the Roman 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
Exempt archdioceses are 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
The ecclesiastical Province of Adelaide covers the whole of the state of South Australia, and the territory of the Northern Territory
- 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
The ecclesiastical Province of Brisbane covers the whole of the state of Queensland
Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne
The province covers the whole of the state of
Victoria
- 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 Zealandand Oceania
Ecclesiastical Province of Perth
The ecclesiastical Province of Perth covers all of Western Australia
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Ecclesiastical Province of Sydney
The province covers most of the state of New South Wales
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sydney, also covers Norfolk Island
- Diocese of Armidale
- Diocese of Bathurst
- Diocese of Broken Bay
- Diocese of Lismore
- Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
- Diocese of Parramatta
- Diocese of Wagga Wagga
- Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes
- Diocese of Wollongong
Other Eastern dioceses
- Antiochian Rite)
- Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Saint Michael Archangel in Sydney, with cathedral see in Darlington, New South Wales; also covers New Zealand; immediately subject to the Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria (a Byzantine Rite)
- Syro-Oriental Rite)
- Chaldean Rite, also Syro-Oriental)
Episcopal Conference of New Zealand
- See under § Episcopal Conference of Australia for the Chaldean Catholic, Melkite and Ukrainian Catholic dioceses competent for both countries, with sees in Sydney, Melbourne.
- See also the infra-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
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wellington
- Diocese of Auckland
- Diocese of Christchurch
- Diocese of Dunedin
- Diocese of Hamilton in New Zealand
- Diocese of Palmerston North
Episcopal Conference of the Pacific
- For Ukrainian Catholics, see § Episcopal Conference of 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 Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United Statesin Washington, D.C.
- Honolulu (on and for Hawaii) is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco in California, U.S.
- Exempt, i.e., immediately subject to the Holy See
Ecclesiastical Province of Agaña
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Agaña
- Diocese of Caroline Islands
- Diocese of Chalan Kanoa
- Prefecture of the Marshall Islands
Ecclesiastical Province of Nouméa
Ecclesiastical Province of Papeete
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Papeete
- Diocese of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata
Ecclesiastical Province of Samoa-Apia
- Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia
- Diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago
- Mission Sui Iuris of Funafuti
- Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau