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Present Mission(e)s Sui Iuris

As of August 2011, the only cases — all of the Latin rite — were:

In Asia:

  • Afghanistan
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan

In the Atlantic Ocean:

  • Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha

In the Caribbean:

  • Cayman Islands, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica (pastoral responsibility of the Archdiocese of Detroit)
  • Turks and Caicos, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Nassau (pastoral responsibility of the Archdiocese of Newark)

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 the Holy See.

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