List of Catholic dioceses in the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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The Catholic Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands is organised into two ecclesiastical provinces: the Archdiocese of Utrecht for the Netherlands proper and Port of Spain for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Similarly, there are two episcopal conferences in the Kingdom, that of the Netherlands proper and that of Antilles in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.

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Ecclesiastical Province of the Netherlands

In the Netherlands proper, there are 6 suffragan dioceses of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Utrecht.

Sui iuris Jurisdictions

Ecclesiastical province of Port of Spain

In the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, the Church has a single diocese, the Diocese of Willemstad which is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain. Willemstad is part of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.

Overlapping foreign competence

Former jurisdictions

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(excludes suppressed precursors with see-identical successors)

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