What is the jurisdiction of the (Bishop) Vicar Apostolic of Kuwait?
The jurisdiction over all Catholics, of whatever Rite or nationality, present in the territory of the Vicariate Apostolic of Kuwait, belongs exclusively to the (Bishop) Vicar Apostolic of Kuwait. For more information regarding this, please see the: Papal “Rescript ex Audientia” dated 8th April 2006. According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law, a Vicar Apostolic is equivalent in law to a diocesan bishop, possessing all ordinary jurisdiction and enjoying the usual rights, faculties, privileges and obligations. However, rather than exercising this governance in his own name, he does so in the name of the Supreme Pontiff.
