Your Diocese
The Catholic Church in the United States is divided into 195 jurisdictional regions called dioceses or archdioceses, which are administered by bishops or archbishops. Each diocese is divided into parishes. There are 18,479 parishes in the United States serving the nation's 64.1 million Catholics.
Many dioceses have their own websites and each diocese is uniquely structured and staffed. You can find your diocesan website by typing the name of your diocese into your search engine. In most dioceses, the chancellor or vicar for religious is also the "diocesan coordinator" for the annual appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Washington, D.C., is an assembly of the Catholic Church hierarchy who work together to unify, coordinate, promote, and carry on Catholic activities in the United States; to organize and conduct religious, charitable, and social welfare work at home and abroad; to aid in education; and to care for immigrants. Bishops constitute the membership of the Conference, which is served by a staff of more than 350 lay people, priests, deacons, and religious. The National Religious Retirement Office is headquartered within the USCCB.