Army bishopric
Army (arch)bishopric, -diocese and similar terms in other languages denote the pseudo-(arch)diocesan corps of Catholic military chaplains serving a nation's armed forces, whether that has the canonical status of Military ordinariate (presently), Military vicariate (before) or even older. Sometimes other (paramilitary) police/ security forces are included.
As per 2017, this is the case in the following military ordinariates :
- Dutch / French / German languages
- Belgium : Dutch Bisdom bij de Krijgsmacht / French Diocèse aux Forces armées belges / German Bistum für die belgischen Streitkräfte
- France : Diocèse aux Armées Françaises
- English language
- Australian Catholic Defence Diocese
- Bishopric of the Forces in Great Britain (UK)
- ''Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States
- Portuguese language
- Diocese das Forças Armadas e de Segurança (Ordinariato Castrense de Portugal)
- Spanish language
- Obispado Castrense de la Argentina
- Obispado Castrense de Bolivia
- Obispado Castrense de Chile
- Obispado Castrense de Colombia
- Obispado Castrense del Ecuador
- Obispado Castrense en El Salvador
- ''Arzobispado Castrense de España (Spain, archbishopric)
- Obispado de las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policia Nacional del Paraguay
- Obispado Castrense de Peru
There have been other, older cases.