Mission sui iuris
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A Mission sui iuris, or in Latin Missio sui iuris, also known as Independent mission, is a rare type of Catholic missionary pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction in an area with very few Catholics, often desolate or remote.
The clerical head is styled Ecclesiastical Superior; he can be a regular cleric, bishop or archbishop and even a cardinal, but if of high rank often resides elsewhere (notably in another diocese or the Vatican) in chief of his primary office.
[edit] Present mission(e)s sui iuris
In April 2006, the only cases -all of the Roman rite- were:
In Asia:
- Afghanistan
- Baku (capital of independent Azerbaijan)
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
In the Atlantic Ocean:
In the Caribean:
- Cayman Island, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Kingston (in Jamaica)
- Turks and Caicos Islands, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Nassau (in the Bahamas)
In Oceania:
- Funafuti, in Tuvalu, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Apia (on Samoa)
- Tokelau, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Apia
Those for which no province is named are exempt, i.e directly under Rome.
[edit] See also
[edit] Source
- List of Missions sui iuris by Giga-Catholic Information
