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Most are exempt (quasi-)(arch)diocesan branches of the Roman Catholic Church , both Latin and Eastern Rites, directly subject to the Pope . Each is headed by a Prelate , usually a Titular Bishop or a diocesan (arch)bishop of the nation concerned who delegates the daily to a lower cleric.

In many cases, a military ordinariate has a rank of an Apostolic Vicariate . In nations with wider military reach, the military ordinariate has the rank of an) (arch) Diocese , but unlike a regular one it does not have authority over the faithfull in a territorial jurisdiction. Outside of Italy , only the armed forces of Spain and the United States (by Pope Pius XII ) have been granted the special rank of Archdiocese , led by a prelate Archbishop overseeing a corps of several bishops serving around the world.

Some nations have military ordinariates of the Anglican Communion , Lutheranism and Eastern Orthodoxy .


LIST OF CATHOLIC MILITARY ORDINARIATES (APRIL 2006)


=EUROPEAN ORDINARIATES

  • 'Catholic Military Pastoral' since 1959; exempt

  • 'bishopric with the armed forces' (since 1957; vested in the Archbishop and Primate)

  • (since 1997; exempt)

  • 'Diocese of the French Armies' (since 1952)

  • 'Cathlic Military Bishopric' (since 1933)

  • (exemp bishop; since 1994)

  • (since 1925), no auxiliary bishop

  • Lithuania : Latin (since 2000)

  • Netherlands : Latin Apostolic administrator, exempt (since 1957)

  • (since 1991)

  • 'Army bishopric' (since 1966; exempt, formerly had an auxiliary bishop)

  • (since 2003; exempt)

  • (since 1950; no auxiliary bishop)

  • (since 1953)



former military ordinariate

(abolished?never)


Other ordinariates

  • 'Army bishorpic' (since 1957; vicariate till 1986)

  • (since 1969)

  • 'Army bishorpic' (since 1961)

  • Brazil : Ordinariado Militar do Brasil (since 1950)

  • (since 1951)

  • 'Army bishorpic' (since 1910)

  • 'Army bishorpic' (since 1949)

  • Dominican Republic : since 1958; exempt

  • (since 1983)

  • Apostolic Administration; exempt

  • Indonesia : Military Ordinariate of Indonesia (since 1949)

  • (since 1964)

  • New Zealand (since 1976; exempt) vested in the Metropolitan of Wellington

  • (since 1961)

  • (since 1943)

  • (since 1950)

  • (since 1951; exempt) vested in the Archishop of Pratoria

  • (exempt bishop; since 1983)

  • (since 1964) vested in a Metropolitan

  • with three Auxiliary Bishops

  • 'Military Ordinariate of Venezuela' (exempt; since 1995)



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