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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