Circumscriptions
(140, 48 with apostolic administrator) | Type | Vacant
since | Last Ordinary | Apostolic
Administrator |
 Sées, France | Diocese | 2010.03.12 |  Bishop Jean-Claude Ézechiel Jean-Baptiste Boulanger (65) (transferred) | |
 Matagalpa, Nicaragua | Diocese | 2010.03.11 | Bishop Jorge Solórzano Pérez (48) (transferred) | |
 Military Ordinariate of South Korea, South Korea | Military Ordinariate | 2010.02.26 | Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon (이기헌 베드로) (62) (transferred) | |
 Tulcán, Ecuador | Diocese | 2010.02.22 | Bishop Luis Antonio Sánchez Armijos, S.D.B. (66) (transferred) | |
 Kottapuram, India | Diocese | 2010.02.20 |  Archbishop Francis Kallarakal (68) (transferred) | |
 Tarazona, Spain | Diocese | 2010.02.18 | Bishop Demetrio Fernández González (60) (transferred) | |
 Sonsón – Rionegro, Colombia | Diocese | 2010.02.16 | Archbishop Richardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (58) (transferred) | |
 Hradec Králové, Czechia | Diocese | 2010.02.13 | Archbishop Dominik Duka, O.P. (66) (transferred) | |
 Pitigliano – Sovana – Orbetello, Italy | Diocese | 2010.02.13 | Bishop Mario Meini (63) (transferred) | |
 Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina | Diocese | 2010.02.10 |  Bishop Virginio Domingo Bressanelli, S.C.I. (67) (transferred) | |
| Arauca, Colombia | Diocese | 2010.02.02 | Bishop Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz (66) (transferred) | |
| San José del Guaviare, Colombia | Diocese | 2010.02.02 | Bishop Guillermo Orozco Montoya (63) (transferred) | |
 Kibungo, Rwanda | Diocese | 2010.01.29 |  Bishop Kizito Bahujimihigo (55) (resigned) | |
| Orense, Spain | Diocese | 2010.01.28 | Bishop Luis Quinteiro Fiuza (62) (transferred) | |
| Cesena – Sarsina, Italy | Diocese | 2010.01.27 | Archbishop Antonio Lanfranchi (63) (transferred) | |
 Zadar, Croatia | Archdiocese | 2010.01.25 | Archbishop Ivan Prenđa (died) | |
 Bauchi, Nigeria | Diocese | 2010.01.20 | Bishop John Francis Moore, S.M.A. (died) | |
 Namur, Belgium | Diocese | 2010.01.18 | Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard (69) (transferred) | |
 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2010.01.12 | Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot (died) | |
| Yola, Nigeria | Diocese | 2010.01.10 | Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba (died) | |
 East Europe (Armenian Rite), Armenia | Ordinariate | 2010.01.06 |  Archbishop Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B. (77) (resigned) |  Fr. Vahan Ohanian |
 Cairo (Chaldean Rite), Egypt | Diocese | 2009.12.31 | Bishop Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf (died) | |
 Palmas, Brazil | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.12.30 | Archbishop Alberto Taveira Corrêa (59) (transferred) | |
| Umuarama, Brazil | Diocese | 2009.12.30 | Bishop Vicente Costa (63) (transferred) | |
 Navrongo – Bolgatanga, Ghana | Diocese | 2009.12.23 | Bishop Lucas Abadamloora (died) | |
 Kroonstad, South Africa | Diocese | 2009.12.18 | Archbishop Stephen Brislin (53) (transferred) | |
 Limerick, Ireland | Diocese | 2009.12.17 | Bishop Donal Brendan Murray (69) (resigned) | |
| Kimberley, South Africa | Diocese | 2009.12.15 | Bishop Erwin Hecht, O.M.I. (76) (resigned) | |
| Pretoria, South Africa | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.12.15 |  Archbishop Paul Mandla Khumalo, C.M.M. (63) (resigned) | |
| South African Defence Force, South Africa | Military Ordinariate | 2009.12.15 | Archbishop Paul Mandla Khumalo, C.M.M. (63) (resigned) | |
 Southwark, United Kingdom | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.12.04 | Archbishop Kevin John Patrick McDonald (62) (resigned) | |
 Bafoussam, Cameroon | Diocese | 2009.12.03 | Archbishop Joseph Atanga, S.J. (57) (transferred) | |
| Tibú, Colombia | Diocese | 2009.12.02 | Bishop Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano, S.D.B. (67) (transferred) | |
| Huesca, Spain | Diocese | 2009.11.21 | Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M. (55) (transferred) | |
| Jaca, Spain | Diocese | 2009.11.21 | Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M. (55) (transferred) | |
| Palencia, Spain | Diocese | 2009.11.21 | Bishop José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre (48) (transferred) | |
 Sapporo 札幌, Japan | Diocese | 2009.11.17 | Bishop Peter Toshio Jinushi (ペトロ地主敏夫) (79) (resigned) | |
| Queenstown, South Africa | Diocese | 2009.11.16 | Bishop Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof, S.A.C. (73) (resigned) | |
 Harrisburg, United States | Diocese | 2009.11.14 | Bishop Kevin Carl Rhoades (52) (transferred) | |
 Ihosy, Madagascar | Diocese | 2009.11.14 | Bishop Philippe Ranaivomanana (60) (transferred) | |
| La Crosse, United States | Diocese | 2009.11.14 | Archbishop Jerome Edward Listecki (61) (transferred) | |
 Solwezi, Zambia | Diocese | 2009.11.14 | Bishop Alick Banda (46) (transferred) | |
| Nashik, India | Diocese | 2009.11.10 | Archbishop Felix Anthony Machado (61) (transferred) | |
| Palmira, Colombia | Diocese | 2009.11.06 | Bishop Abraham Escudero Montoya (died) | |
| Kohima, India | Diocese | 2009.10.30 | Bishop Jose Mukala (61) (resigned) | |
 Celaya, Mexico | Diocese | 2009.10.25 | Bishop Lázaro Pérez Jiménez (died) | |
| Cape Coast, Ghana | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.10.24 |  Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (61) (transferred) | |
 Gurué, Mozambique | Diocese | 2009.10.09 | Bishop Manuel Chuanguira Machado (59) (resigned) | |
 Malindi, Kenya | Diocese | 2009.10.09 | Bishop Francis Baldacchino, O.F.M. Cap. (died) | |
 Masbate, Philippines | Diocese | 2009.10.01 | Bishop Joel Zamudio Baylon (56) (transferred) | |
| Atlacomulco, Mexico | Diocese | 2009.09.29 | Archbishop Constancio Miranda Weckmann (57) (transferred) | |
| Mitú, Colombia | Apostolic Vicariate | 2009.09.17 | Bishop José Gustavo Angel Ramírez, M.X.Y. (76) (resigned) | |
| Paranavaí, Brazil | Diocese | 2009.09.16 | Bishop Sérgio Aparecido Colombo (55) (transferred) | |
| Balanga, Philippines | Diocese | 2009.09.08 | Archbishop Socrates Buenaventura Villegas (49) (transferred) | |
| Nueva Pamplona, Colombia | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.08.29 | Archbishop Gustavo Martínez Frías (died) | Bishop Jaime Prieto Amaya (68) |
 Arua, Uganda | Diocese | 2009.08.19 | Bishop Frederick Drandua (66) (resigned) | Bishop Sabino Ocan Odoki (52) |
 Mwanza, Tanzania | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.08.19 | Archbishop Anthony Mayala (died) | |
| Daegu 대구, South Korea | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.08.17 | Archbishop John Choi Young-soo (최영수 요한) (resigned) | |
| Eluru, India | Diocese | 2009.08.16 | Bishop John Mulagada (died) | |
| Ngong, Kenya | Diocese | 2009.08.01 | Bishop Cornelius Schilder, M.H.M. (68) (resigned) | |
| Saint Josaphat in Parma (Ukrainian Rite), United States | Diocese | 2009.07.29 | Bishop Robert Mikhail Moskal (72) (resigned) | Bishop John Bura (65) |
 Semarang, Indonesia | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.07.25 | Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (59) (transferred) | |
| Coari, Brazil | Territorial Prelature | 2009.07.22 | Bishop Joércio Gonçalves Pereira, C.SS.R. (56) (resigned) | |
 Mindelo, Cape Verde | Diocese | 2009.07.22 | Bishop Arlindo Gomes Furtado (60) (transferred) | |
| Kalibo, Philippines | Diocese | 2009.07.21 | Bishop Jose Romeo Orquejo Lazo (61) (transferred) | |
| Teruel y Albarracín, Spain | Diocese | 2009.07.18 | Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes (60) (transferred) | |
 Gbarnga, Liberia | Diocese | 2009.07.11 | Archbishop Lewis Zeigler (66) (transferred) | Fr. Chris Brennan, S.M.A. |
| Beauvais, France | Diocese | 2009.07.08 | Bishop Jean-Paul André Denis Marcel James (57) (transferred) | |
 Minas, Uruguay | Diocese | 2009.07.01 | Bishop Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira (65) (resigned) | Bishop Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer (67) |
| Sobral, Brazil | Diocese | 2009.07.01 | Archbishop Fernando Antônio Saburido, O.S.B. (62) (transferred) | |
| Tubarão, Brazil | Diocese | 2009.07.01 | Bishop Jacinto Bergmann (58) (transferred) | |
 Wilcannia – Forbes, Australia | Diocese | 2009.06.09 | Bishop Christopher Henry Toohey (57) (resigned) | Bishop Terence John Gerard Brady (62) |
 Trondheim, Norway | Territorial Prelature | 2009.06.08 | Bishop Georg Müller, SS.CC. (58) (resigned) | Bishop Bernt Ivar Eidsvig, C.R.S.A. (56) |
| Springfield in Illinois, United States | Diocese | 2009.06.03 | Archbishop George Joseph Lucas (60) (transferred) | |
 Bangui, Central African Republic | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.05.26 | Archbishop Paulin Pomodimo (55) (resigned) | Fr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. |
| Bossangoa, Central African Republic | Diocese | 2009.05.16 | Bishop François-Xavier Yombandje (53) (resigned) | Msgr. Pascal Tongamba |
 Malakal, Sudan | Diocese | 2009.05.16 | Bishop Vincent Mojwok Nyiker (77) (resigned) | Msgr. Roko Taban Mousa |
 Galle, Sri Lanka | Diocese | 2009.05.14 | Bishop Harold Anthony Perera (58) (transferred) | |
| Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria | Diocese | 2009.05.04 | Bishop Camillus Archibong Etokudoh (61) (transferred) | |
| Kasama, Zambia | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.05.04 | Archbishop James Spaita (75) (resigned) | Msgr. Ignatius Mwebe |
 Kasongo, Congo-Kinshasa | Diocese | 2009.04.21 | Bishop Théophile Kaboy Ruboneka (69) (transferred) | |
| Tete, Mozambique | Diocese | 2009.04.18 | Bishop Paulo Mandlate, S.S.S. (76) (resigned) | Fr. Giacomo Palagi, M.C.C.I. |
| Valladolid, Spain | Metropolitan Archdiocese | 2009.04.16 | Archbishop Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (66) (transferred) | |
| Jacmel, Haiti | Diocese | 2009.03.09 | Bishop Guire Poulard (68) (transferred) | |
 West Sahara, Western Sahara | Apostolic Prefecture | 2009.02.25 |  Fr. Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, O.M.I. (87) (resigned) | Fr. Mario León Dorado, O.M.I. |
| Damongo, Ghana | Diocese | 2009.02.12 | Archbishop Philip Naameh (61) (transferred) | |
 Celje, Slovenia | Diocese | 2009.01.31 | Archbishop Anton Stres, C.M. (67) (transferred) | Archbishop Anton Stres, C.M. (67) |
| Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syrian Rite), United States | Diocese | 2009.01.20 |  Patriarch Ignace Youssif III Younan (Ephrem Joseph Younan) (65) (resigned) | |
| Mansa, Zambia | Diocese | 2009.01.15 | Bishop Andrew Aaron Chisha (76) (resigned) | Fr. Michel Merizzi, M. Afr. |
 Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, Paraguay | Diocese | 2008.12.27 | Bishop Sebelio Peralta Álvarez (70) (transferred) | |
 Carúpano, Venezuela | Diocese | 2008.12.10 | Archbishop Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez (54) (transferred) | Bishop Enrique Pérez Lavado (58) |
| Mahagi – Nioka, Congo-Kinshasa | Diocese | 2008.11.28 | Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa (51) (transferred) | |
| Kole, Congo-Kinshasa | Diocese | 2008.10.30 | Bishop Stanislas Lukumwena Lumbala, O.F.M. (60) (resigned) | Bishop Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M. Cap. (50) |
 Owando, Congo-Brazzaville | Diocese | 2008.10.22 | Bishop Ernest Kombo, S.J. (died) | Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu (67) |
| Cape Palmas, Liberia | Diocese | 2008.10.15 | Bishop Boniface Nyema Dalieh (76) (resigned) | |
| Uvira, Congo-Kinshasa | Diocese | 2008.07.31 | Archbishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga, S.D.B. (67) (transferred) | |
 Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe | Diocese | 2008.05.15 | Bishop Ernest Mesmin Lucien Cabo (77) (resigned) | |
| Oita 大分, Japan | Diocese | 2008.03.19 | Bishop Dominic Ryōji Miyahara (ドミニコ宮原良治) (54) (transferred) | |
 Saurimo, Angola | Diocese | 2008.02.18 | Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso, P.S.D.P. (70) (transferred) | |
 Kimbe, Papua New Guinea | Diocese | 2008.01.19 | Bishop Alphonse Liguori Chaupa (50) (resigned) | |
| Warri, Nigeria | Diocese | 2007.12.24 | Archbishop Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S. (61) (transferred) | Archbishop Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S. (61) |
 Miskolc (Hungarian Rite), Hungary | Apostolic Exarchate | 2007.11.10 | Bishop Szilárd Keresztes (77) (resigned) | Bishop Peter Fülöp Kocsis (47) |
 Saint John’s – Basseterre, Antigua and Barbuda | Diocese | 2007.10.12 | Archbishop Donald James Reece (75) (transferred) | Bishop Gabriel Malzaire (52) |
| Ruhengeri, Rwanda | Diocese | 2007.08.28 | Bishop Kizito Bahujimihigo (55) (transferred) | |
 Bučač (Ukrainian Rite), Ukraine | Diocese | 2007.07.28 | Bishop Irynej Bilyk, O.S.B.M. (60) (resigned) | Fr. Demetrius Hryhorak, O.S.B.M. |
 Kingstown, Saint Vincent and Grenadines | Diocese | 2007.07.19 | Archbishop Robert Rivas, O.P. (63) (transferred) | Archbishop Robert Rivas, O.P. (63) |
 Iraq (Greek-Melkite Rite), Iraq | Patriarchal Exarchate | 2007.06.23 | Archbishop Georges El-Murr, B.C. (79) (resigned) | |
| Obispado Castrense de la Argentina, Argentina | Military Ordinariate | 2007.05.15 | Bishop Antonio Juan Baseotto, C.SS.R. (77) (resigned) | |
| Bassorah (Chaldean Rite), Iraq | Archdiocese | 2006.10.21 | Archbishop Djibrail Kassab (71) (transferred) | |
 Ebebiyin, Equatorial Guinea | Diocese | 2006.08.27 | Bishop Alfred Maria Oburu Asue, C.M.F. (died) | Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F. (60) |
| Great Britain (Ukrainian Rite), United Kingdom | Apostolic Exarchate | 2006.01.03 | Bishop Paul Patrick Chomnycky, O.S.B.M. (55) (transferred) | Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, M.S.U. (56) |
 Bridgetown, Barbados | Diocese | 2005.05.31 | Bishop Malcolm Patrick Galt, C.S.Sp. (80) (resigned) | Archbishop Robert Rivas, O.P. (63) |
 Ispahan (Armenian Rite), Iran | Diocese | 2005.04.02 | Archbishop Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B. (77) (transferred) | |
 Diarbekir (Chaldean Rite), Turkey | Archdiocese | 2005.01.16 | Archbishop Paul Karatas (died) | Msgr. Joseph Pallikunnel |
| Arbil (Chaldean Rite), Iraq | Archdiocese | 2005.01.08 | Archbishop Yacoub Denha Scher (died) | Bishop Rabban Al-Qas (60) |
| Mukacheve (Ruthenian Rite), Ukraine | Diocese | 2002.11.12 | Bishop Ivan Semedi (resigned) | Bishop Milan Šášik, C.M. (57) |
 Yarmouth, Canada | Diocese | 2001.11.09 | Bishop James Matthew Wingle (63) (transferred) | Archbishop Anthony Mancini (64) |
 Greece (Armenian Rite), Greece | Ordinariate | 2000.09.27 | Archbishop Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B. (77) (transferred) | Archbishop Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B. (77) |
| Aqrā (Chaldean Rite), Iraq | Diocese | 1998.07.25 | Bishop Abdul-Ahad Rabban, O.S.H. (died) | Fr. Youhanna Issa |
| Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México (Greek-Melkite Rite), Mexico | Diocese | 1994.06.07 | Archbishop Boutros Raï, B.A. (died) | Archimandrite Gabriel Ghanoum, B.S. |
 Military Ordinariate of the Netherlands, Netherlands | Military Ordinariate | 1993.03.13 | Bishop Ronald Philippe Bär, O.S.B. (81) (resigned) | Bishop Jozef Marianus Punt (64) |
 Kamichlié (Armenian Rite), Syria | Diocese | 1992.04.10 | Bishop Joseph Arnaouti, I.C.P.B. (73) (resigned) | Archbishop Boutros Marayati (62) |
 Mogadiscio, Somalia | Diocese | 1989.07.09 | Bishop Pietro Salvatore Colombo, O.F.M. (died) | Bishop Giorgio Bertin, O.F.M. (63) |
 Luang Prabang, Laos | Apostolic Vicariate | 1975.11.29 | Bishop Alessandro Staccioli, O.M.I. (78) (transferred) | Fr. Tito Banchong Thopanhong |
| Rhodes, Greece | Archdiocese | 1970.03.10 | Archbishop Florido Ambrogio Acciari, O.F.M. (died) | Archbishop Nikólaos Fóscolos (73) |
 Misurata, Libya | Apostolic Prefecture | 1969.06.26 | Bishop Guido Attilio Previtali, O.F.M. (transferred) | |
| Sulaimaniya (Chaldean Rite), Iraq | Diocese | 1968.03.07 | | Archimandrite Denha Hanna Touma, O.A.O.C. |
| Indias Occidentales, Spain | Titular Patriarchal See | 1963.07.31 | Patriarch Leopoldo Eijo y Garay (died) | |
| Istanbul (Greek Rite), Turkey | Apostolic Exarchate | 1957.01.28 | Bishop Dionisio Leonida Varouhas (died) | Bishop Louis Pelâtre, A.A. (69) |
 Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia | Apostolic Prefecture | 1953 | Fr. Agostino Isamu Seno (resigned) | Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz (57) |
 Tŏkwon 덕원, North Korea | Territorial Abbacy | 1950.02.07 | Bishop Boniface Sauer, O.S.B. (신 보니파시오) (died) | Fr. Simon Peter Ri Hyong-u, O.S.B. (이동호 플라치도) |
| Derna, Libya | Apostolic Vicariate | 1948.06.21 | Bishop Giovanni Lucato, S.D.B. (transferred) | |
 Pinsk, Belarus | Diocese | 1946.05.06 | Bishop Kazimierz Bukraba (died) |  Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek (Казімір Свёнтэк) (95) |
| Hamhung 함흥, North Korea | Diocese | 1940.01.12 | Bishop Boniface Sauer, O.S.B. (신 보니파시오) (transferred) | |
| Chios, Greece | Diocese | 1939.07.01 | Bishop Nicolas Charikiopoulos (died) | Archbishop Nikólaos Printesis (69) |
| Lviv (Armenian Rite), Ukraine | Archdiocese | 1938.12.05 | Archbishop Giuseppe Teodorowicz (died) | |
| Crete, Greece | Diocese | 1935.05.05 | Bishop Lorenzo Giacomo Inglese, O.F.M. Cap. (transferred) | Bishop Franghískos Papamanólis, O.F.M. Cap. (73) |
| Russia (Russian Rite), Russia | Apostolic Exarchate | 1935 | Bishop Leonida Feodoroff (resigned) | |
 Romania (Armenian Rite), Romania | Ordinariate | 1930.06.05 | | Archbishop György-Miklós Jakubínyi (64) |
| Thessaloniki, Greece | Apostolic Vicariate | 1929.07.15 | Archbishop Alessandro Guidati (transferred) | Archbishop Yannis Spiteris, O.F.M. Cap. (69) |
