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A mission ''sui iuris'', or in Latin ''missio sui iuris'' (plural ''missions sui iuris''); also spelled mission(n) sui juris), also known as an independent mission, is a rare type of Roman Catholic missionary pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction, ranking below an apostolic prefecture and an apostolic vicariate, in an area with very few Catholics, often desolate or remote. The clerical head is styled Ecclesiastical Superior; he can be a regular cleric, titular or diocesan bishop, archbishop or even a cardinal, but if of episcopal rank often resides elsewhere (notably, in another diocese or the Vatican) in chief of his primary office there. It can either be exempt (i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, like Apostolic prefectures and Apostolic Vicariates), or suffragan of a Metropolitan Archbishop, hence part of his ecclestiastical province. == Current missions ''sui iuris'' == As of July 2015, the only remaining cases — all of the Latin Church — were: In Asia : * Afghanistan * Tajikistan * Turkmenistan In the Atlantic Ocean: * Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, vested in the Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands 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 Samoa-Apia * Tokelau, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Suva Those for which no province is named are exempt, i.e. directly under the Holy See. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mission sui iuris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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