List of Catholic bishops in the United States

The 176 Latin Church dioceses in the United States are divided into 33 ecclesiastical provinces. Each province has a metropolitan archdiocese led by an archbishop, and at least one suffragan diocese. Each suffragan diocese is led by a bishop. The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA is the only American archdiocese that is not designated as a metropolitan archdiocese. The pope appoints all archbishops and bishops, who must be at least ordained priests. The pope chooses from a list of candidates provided by the papal nuncio of the United States to the Congregation of Bishops in Rome.[2]

• Most archdioceses and large dioceses have one or more auxiliary bishops, serving under the direction of the archbishop or bishop. The pope appoints all auxiliary bishops.
• Some archdioceses and dioceses have a coadjutor archbishop or coadjutor bishop. The coadjutor assists an elderly or ailing archbishop or bishop with their administrative duties. After the archbishop or bishop retires or dies, the coadjutor normally succeeds him without an appointment by the pope. The pope appoints all coadjutors.

In some rare cases, the pope will name a titular archbishop as the bishop of a suffragan diocese. The most recent example in the United States was that of Celestine Damiano, whom Pope John XXIII named as bishop of the Diocese of Camden in 1960.[3]

There are several dioceses in the American inhabited territories:

• In the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the archbishop and five bishops form their own episcopal conference, the Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña.[4][5]
• In the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam, the bishops belong to the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.

All active and retired bishops and archbishops in the United States —diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary—are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

The United States has two Eastern Catholic metropoliae, each led by a metropolitan archbishop called an archparch:

• In the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church there is a single metropolis — the Metropolis of Pittsburgh
• The four Ukrainian Catholic eparchies constitute the second metropolia. Philadelphia is the metropolitan see.

As of October 2022, the Vatican has designated seven American metropolitan archbishops in the Latin Church as cardinals:

• Seán O'Malley – Archdiocese of Boston
• Blase Cupich – Archdiocese of Chicago
• Daniel DiNardo – Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
• Joseph Tobin – Archdiocese of Newark
• Timothy Dolan – Archdiocese of New York
• Wilton Gregory – Archdiocese of Washington

Four American archdioceses have retired archbishops who served as cardinal-archbishops:

• Adam Maida – Archdiocese of Detroit
• Roger Mahony – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
• Justin Rigali – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
• Donald Wuerl – Archdiocese of Washington

One suffragan diocese is led by a cardinal:

Robert W. McElroy – Diocese of San Diego

Three American archdioceses have former archbishops whom the Vatican created as cardinals after they completed their tenures as diocesan archbishops:

• Edwin O'Brien – Archdiocese of Baltimore
• James Stafford – Archdiocese of Denver
• Raymond Burke – Archdiocese of St. Louis

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is a special diocese comprising Anglican converts to Catholicism. Under canon law, if the personal ordinary is not a bishop, he is treated as the equivalent of a diocesan bishop.[6][1]

Province	Ecclesiastical province map	Diocese coat of arms	Bishop	Title	Bishop coat of arms
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter			Steven Joseph Lopes	bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

• Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S. (Nunciature of the Holy See in Washington, D.C.)[10]
• Gabriele Giordano Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
• Italo Dell'Oro, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

• "List of Bishops". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
• "GCatholic Bishops".