Army bishopric

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Army (arch)bishopric, -diocese and similar terms in other languages denote the pseudo-(arch)diocesan corps of Catholic military chaplains serving a nation's armed forces, whether that has the canonical status of Military ordinariate (presently), Military vicariate (before) or even older. Sometimes other (paramilitary) police/ security forces are included.

As per 2017, this is the case in the following military ordinariates :

French languages
English language
Portuguese language
Spanish language

There have been other, older cases.

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