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In the Catholic Church, a province consists of a metropolitan archdiocese and one or more (1-13) suffragan dioceses headed by diocesan bishops or territorial prelatures and missions sui iuris. The archbishop of the metropolitan see is the metropolitan of the province.
Provincial, an officer acting under the superior general of a religious order, and exercising a general supervision over all the local superiors in a division of the order called a province.
Ecclesiastical Province. The name given to an ecclesiastical administrative district under the jurisdiction of an archbishop. Ecclesiastical provinces first assumed a fixed form in the Eastern Roman Empire.
An officer acting under the superior general of a religious order, and exercising a general supervision over all the local superiors in a division of the order called a province. The division is to a certain extent geographical, and may consist of one or more countries, or of a part of a ...
archdiocese – the ecclesial province. The archdiocese, headed by an archbishop, is typically the largest or oldest diocese in an ecclesial province and takes on an additional administrative role for the whole province.
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There are 32 Ecclesiastical Provinces in the United State that cover Latin Rite Churches only and a Military Archdiocese which is not within an Ecclesiastical Provinces. Each dioceses is led by a bishop.
The chief diocese of an Eastern Catholic ecclesiastical province. In most contexts it can be called an archdiocese , but if some legal distinction between Eastern and Latin Catholic jurisdictions is important, it may be necessary to introduce the term.
