Terms of Use

Use and stewardship of the data

Terms and Conditions of Use

Please consult the applicable Terms of Use, Attribution Information, and Data Provenance pages before using or redistributing the data.

Dataset Terms of Use

The Global Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions Repository contains datasets developed and published across multiple versions. Because each version has its own history, sources, and licensing terms, please refer to the terms applicable to the specific dataset you are using.

Version 2.0
Terms governing the current version of the global ecclesiastical jurisdiction boundaries and its associated data from 2026.

Terms and Use: Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions Version 2.0

Version 1.2
Terms governing the subsequent historical version of the boundary dataset updated in 2019.

Terms and Use: Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions Version 1.2

Version 1.0
Terms governing the original published version of the global ecclesiastical jurisdiction boundaries from 2016.

Terms and Use: Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions Version 1.0

Attribution

For information about how to cite the datasets, acknowledge contributors, and distinguish data authorship from later stewardship or cartographic work, see Attribution Information.

Attribution Guidelines

Data Provenance

For documentation of the sources, research, revisions, and development history underlying the datasets, see Data Provenance.

Data Providence

Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives

Disclaimer:

The Global Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Data Repository does not necessarily reflect the views, positions, policies, or official determinations of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum/PUST), the Catholic University of America (CUA), the Holy See, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, or any other institution, organization, or source represented or referenced in the repository.

Copyright, Licensing, and Use

The ecclesiastical jurisdictional data and contents of this repository, except when specified otherwise, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You are free to share and copy the material for non-commercial ends, provided that due credit is given. Altered, modified, remixed, or transformed forms of the data may not be distributed under this license. This license does not restrict the production or publication of separate non-commercial analytical, cartographic, or research outputs relying on the data, provided that such works do not form an altered or adapted version of the dataset itself and that original sources are properly credited.