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<p>they were reorganized, and have retained their place ever since.</p>

<p><big>Provincial church organisation</big></p>
<p><big>Catholic Church</big></p>
<p><big>In general</big></p>
<p>In the <a href="page.php?w=Catholic_Church">Catholic Church</a>, a province consists of a metropolitan archdiocese and one or more (1-13) <a href="page.php?w=suffragan_diocese">suffragan diocese</a>s headed by diocesan bishops or territorial prelatures, apostolic vicariates and missions sui iuris. The <a href="page.php?w=archbishop">archbishop</a> of the metropolitan see is the <a href="page.php?w=metropolitan_bishop">metropolitan</a></p><p>
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