MISSION SUI IURIS

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.

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Present mission(e)s sui iuris

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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:

★ Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha
In the Caribbean:

★ Cayman Islands, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Kingston (in Jamaica)

★ Turks and Caicos, 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.

See also

★ Apostolic administration

★ Prefecture apostolic

Source

★ List of Missions sui iuris by Giga-Catholic Information