Territory dependent on the Patriarch
In oriental canon law, a Territory Dependent on the Patriarch is a low-ranking, pre-diocesan type of Eastern Catholic jurisdiction, directly dependent on the Patriarch who heads a rite-specific Particular Church sui iuris, but not part of his or any ecclesiastical province, and in Rome depenent on the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
As of 2015, there are five such territories, in the Holy Land and North Africa :
; Antiochian Rite : Syriac Catholic Church :
; Byzantine Rite : Melkite Catholic Church :
; Syro-Oriental Rite : Chaldean Catholic Church, both in the Holy Land :
