List of Catholic basilicas

This is a complete list of basilicas of the Catholic Church. A basilica is a church with certain privileges conferred on it by the Pope.

Not all churches with "basilica" in their title actually have the ecclesiastical status, which can lead to confusion, since it is also an architectural term for a church-building style.

In the 18th century, the term took on a canonical sense, unrelated to this architectural style. Basilicas in this canonical sense are divided into major ("greater") and minor basilicas. Today only four, all in the Diocese of Rome, are classified as major basilicas: the major basilicas of St John Lateran, St Peter's, St Paul outside the Walls, and St Mary Major. The other canonical basilicas are minor basilicas.

By canon law no Catholic church can be honoured with the title of basilica unless by apostolic grant or from immemorial custom. The Basilica di San Nicola da Tolentino was the first minor basilica to be canonically created, in 1783. The 1917 Code of Canon Law officially recognised churches using the title of basilica from immemorial custom as having such a right to the title of minor basilica. Such churches are referred to as immemorial basilicas.

Statistics
, there were 1,690 basilicas (four of them major; the rest minor) in the world.

Countries with more than 100 basilicas

 * Italy (573) (includes 4 major basilicas, 1 in the Vatican)
 * France (172)
 * Spain (129)
 * Poland (127)

Countries with between 10 and 100 basilicas

 * United States (93)
 * Brazil (79)
 * Germany (77)
 * Argentina (48)
 * Colombia (42)
 * Austria (35)
 * India (34)
 * Belgium (28)


 * Netherlands (28)
 * Mexico (27)
 * Canada (27)
 * Philippines (23)
 * Venezuela (17)
 * Hungary (16)
 * Portugal (16)


 * Czech Republic (15)
 * Ecuador (12)
 * Malta (12)
 * Peru (12)
 * Slovakia (12)
 * Switzerland (12)
 * Croatia (11)

Cities and municipalities with more than 10 basilicas

 * Rome (66) (includes 4 major basilicas, 1 in the Vatican)
 * Buenos Aires (15)
 * Kraków (13)
 * Bologna (11)
 * Florence (11)

Cities and municipalities with between six and 10 basilicas

 * Naples (9)
 * Barcelona (9)
 * Milan (9)
 * Venice (8)
 * Cologne (6)
 * Lima (6)
 * Madrid (6)
 * Santiago (6)

Cities and municipalities with five basilicas

 * Bogotá
 * Genoa
 * Jerusalem
 * Paris
 * Piacenza
 * Prague
 * Turin

Cities and municipalities with four basilicas

 * Braga
 * Gdańsk
 * Kochi
 * Manila
 * Marseille
 * Montreal
 * New York City
 * Padua


 * Ravenna
 * Rio de Janeiro
 * Salvador
 * São Paulo
 * Seville
 * Trapani
 * Warsaw

Cities and municipalities with three basilicas

 * Acireale
 * Assisi
 * Berlin
 * Bruges
 * Cagliari
 * Caltagirone
 * Caracas
 * Catania
 * Chicago


 * Düsseldorf
 * Kochi
 * La Paz
 * Lecce
 * Lourdes
 * Málaga
 * Mantua
 * Monterrey
 * Nancy


 * Prato
 * Quito
 * Siena
 * Trier
 * Valencia
 * Vercelli
 * Verona
 * Vienna

Cities and municipalities with two basilicas

 * Agrigento
 * Aparecida
 * Annecy
 * Arezzo
 * Bari
 * Barletta
 * Belo Horizonte
 * Bilbao
 * Bordeaux
 * Brescia
 * Budapest
 * Caeté
 * Cairo
 * Camerino
 * Capua
 * Cesena
 * Comiso


 * Como
 * Córdoba
 * Cusco
 * Częstochowa
 * Fano
 * Ferrara
 * Finale Ligure
 * Foggia
 * Forio
 * Forlì
 * Granada
 * Grenoble
 * Istanbul
 * Jerez de la Frontera
 * Kaunas
 * La Plata
 * León


 * Levoča
 * Lisbon
 * Lucca
 * Lyon
 * Maastricht
 * Manizales
 * Medellín
 * Mendoza
 * Mexico City
 * Modena
 * Montefiascone
 * Montpellier
 * Nantes
 * Narbonne
 * New Orleans
 * Nice
 * Nicosia


 * Ottawa
 * Palermo
 * Palma de Mallorca
 * Pesaro
 * Philadelphia
 * Pistoia
 * Quezon City
 * Rapallo
 * Regensburg
 * Reggio Emilia
 * Reims
 * Rennes
 * Rosario
 * Saint-Brieuc
 * Saintes
 * St. Louis
 * Salta


 * San Lorenzo de El Escorial
 * San Salvador
 * Santa Fe, Argentina
 * Sées
 * Savona
 * Sucre
 * Tolentino
 * Toronto
 * Toulouse
 * Trento
 * Valletta
 * Viareggio
 * Viterbo
 * Wrocław
 * Zaragoza

Other basilicas
The following churches are often referred to as basilicas, but there does not appear to be evidence of their officially holding that status: