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Catholic Church In South Sudan
The Catholic Church in South Sudan is composed of one ecclesiastical province with one archdiocese and six suffragan dioceses. There have been a total of 31 bishops in South Sudan to date. The bishops of South Sudan and Sudan are currently members of one single bishops' conference, designated as ''Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference''. It is the largest church in South Sudan. According to the ''World Christian Encyclopedia'', the Catholic Church was the largest single Christian body in Sudan since 1995, with 2.7 million Catholics mainly concentrated in South Sudan. Today, 37.2% of the population is Catholic, with about 6.2 million Catholics out of a total population of 16.7 million. The patron saint is Josephine Bakhita. Bakhita was born in Darfur in 1869 and kidnapped at the age of 6 by slavers. She was sold three times and beaten regularly. She was ransomed by Callisto Legnani, an Italian consul, converted to Christianity in a Venetian school and became a nun. She was canoniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Sudan
South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya. Its population was estimated as 12,778,250 in 2019. Juba is the capital and largest city. It gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011, making it the most recent sovereign state or country with widespread recognition as of 2022. It includes the vast swamp region of the Sudd, formed by the White Nile and known locally as the '' Bahr al Jabal'', meaning "Mountain River". Sudan was occupied by Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty and was governed as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium until Sudanese independence in 1956. Following the First Sudanese Civil War, the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region was formed in 1972 and lasted until 1983. A second Sudanese civil war soon broke out in 1983 and ended in 2005 with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness, he was inspired to join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In South Sudan
The Catholic Church in South Sudan is composed of one ecclesiastical province with one archdiocese and six suffragan dioceses. There have been a total of 31 bishops in South Sudan to date. The bishops of South Sudan and Sudan are currently members of one single bishops' conference, designated as ''Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference''. It is the largest church in South Sudan. According to the ''World Christian Encyclopedia'', the Catholic Church was the largest single Christian body in Sudan since 1995, with 2.7 million Catholics mainly concentrated in South Sudan. Today, 37.2% of the population is Catholic, with about 6.2 million Catholics out of a total population of 16.7 million. The patron saint is Josephine Bakhita. Bakhita was born in Darfur in 1869 and kidnapped at the age of 6 by slavers. She was sold three times and beaten regularly. She was ransomed by Callisto Legnani, an Italian consul, converted to Christianity in a Venetian school and became a nun. She was canoniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Saints From Africa
This is a list of saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God from Africa, as recognized by the Catholic Church or other Christian denominations. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the states or territories of Africa. Before the Arab Conquest In the first centuries of the Church, Africa produced many of her leading lights. The Catholic presence in Africa was weakened by the schism following the Council of Chalcedon which resulted in the separation between the Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Church, and even more so by the rise of Islam. Following the Arab conquest of northern Africa, the Catholic Church was largely absent from the continent before modern times, although the Coptic, and later Ethiopic, Orthodox Churches remained. The following are some of the notable saints from the first to seventh centuries, though it is a very incomplete list. Popes Three of the early popes were either from Africa themselves or children of African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religion In South Sudan
Christianity is the most widely professed religion in South Sudan, with significant minorities of the adherents of traditional African religions and Islam. President Salva Kiir, a Catholic, while speaking at Saint Theresa Cathedral in Juba, stated that South Sudan would be a nation which respects freedom of religion. The reported estimated relative proportions of adherents of traditional African religions and Christianity have varied. A 2019 study found that Protestants outnumbered Catholics in South Sudan. History Christianity has a long history in the region that is now South Sudan. Ancient Nubia was reached by Coptic Christianity by the 2nd century, and missionary activity from Ethiopia consolidated that community. In 1920, the Protestant Church Missionary Society originated a diocese. Religious membership In the early 1990s, official records of Sudan as a whole (Sudan and South Sudan) showed that a large percentage adhered to African Traditional Religion (17%) and Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Yei
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yei ( la, Yeien(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Yei in the Ecclesiastical province of Juba in South Sudan. History * March 21, 1986: Established as Diocese of Yei from Archdiocese of Juba Leadership * Bishops of Yei (Roman rite) ** Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe (1986.03.21-2022.02.11) ** Bishop Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo (since 2022.02.11) See also *Roman Catholicism in South Sudan The Catholic Church in South Sudan is composed of one ecclesiastical province with one archdiocese and six suffragan dioceses. There have been a total of 31 bishops in South Sudan to date. The bishops of South Sudan and Sudan are currently members ... * Pojulu Tribe Sources GCatholic.org {{authority control Yei Yei Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century 1986 establishments in Sudan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Wau
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wau ( la, Vaven(sis)) is a suffragan Latin rite diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Juba which cover all and only South Sudan, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The Cathedral episcopal see is Cathedral of St. Mary in Wau, Gharb Baḩr al Ghazāl province. The diocese is occupied since the 18 November 2020 by bishop Matthew Remijio Adam Gbitiku. History * 30 May 1913: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Bahr el-Ghazal, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Africa * 13 June 1917: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Bahr el-Ghazal * Lost territory repeatedly : on 1923.06.12 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Equatorial Nile, on 1949.03.03 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Mupoi and on 1955.07.03 to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Rumbek * 26 May 1961: Renamed after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Wau * 12 December 1974: Promoted as Diocese of Wau Statistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Torit
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Torit ( la, Toriten(sis)) is a diocese located in Torit in the Ecclesiastical province of Juba in South Sudan. History The Diocese of Torit is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Juba. It was detached from Juba on May 2, 1983. The first Bishop Paride Taban was appointed on July 2, 1983. The Diocese covers 82,542 km2. and has a population of 1,550,000 of whom around 70% (1,085,000) are Catholics. It has three deaneries: Western Deanery, bordering Uganda, Central Deanery, bordering north south of Uganda and Eastern Deanery, bordering Kenya and part of Ethiopia. Due to the civil war from 1984 to 2005, the diocese operated from Nairobi. After signing the peace agreement, the see of the diocese opened in Torit. The Diocese serves 15 parishes, 36 Eucharistic Centers, and 240 other stations not regularly visited by priests, but by lay leaders and catechists. The CDOT just as Eastern Equatoria State is bordered in the East by Ethiopia, in the Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Tombura-Yambio
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio ( la, Tomburaën(sis)–Yambioën(sis)) is a diocese located in the cities of Tumbura and Yambio in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, Juba in South Sudan. History * March 3, 1949: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Mupoi from Apostolic Prefecture of Bahr el-Gebel and Apostolic Vicariate of Bahr el-Ghazal * December 12, 1974: Promoted as Diocese of Tombura * February 21, 1986: Renamed as Diocese of Tombura–Yambio Leadership * Prefect Apostolic of Mupoi (Roman rite) ** Bishop Domenico Ferrara, M.C.C.I. (1949.03.11 – 1973.04.18) * Bishop of Tombura (Roman rite) ** Bishop Joseph Abangite Gasi (1974.12.12 – 1986.02.21 ''see below'') * Bishops of Tombura-Yambio (Roman rite) ** Bishop Joseph Abangite Gasi (''see above'' 1986.02.21 - 2008.04.19) ** Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala (since 2008.04.19) See also *Roman Catholicism in South Sudan Sources GCatholic.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Tombura-Yam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Malakal
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Malakal ( la, Malakalen(sis)) is a diocese in Malakal in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, Juba in South Sudan. History * January 10, 1933: Established as Mission “sui iuris” of Kodok from Apostolic Vicariate of Khartoum * August 4, 1938: Promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Kodok * July 14, 1949: Renamed as Apostolic Prefecture of Malakal * December 12, 1974: Promoted as Diocese of Malakal Leadership * Ecclesiastical Superior of Kodok (Roman rite) ** Fr. Matteo Michelon, M.C.C.I. (1933.07.08 – 1935) * Prefects Apostolic of Kodok (Roman rite) ** Fr. John Wall, M.H.M. (1938.08.12 – 1945) ** Fr. John Hart, M.H.M. (1947.06.13 – 1949.07.14 ''see below'') * Prefects Apostolic of Malakal (Roman rite) ** Fr. John Hart (priest), John Hart, M.H.M. (''see above'' 1949.07.14 – 1962) ** Fr. Herman Gerard Te Riele, M.H.M. (1962.05.29 – 1967) * Prefects Apostolic of Malakal (Roman rite) ** Fr. Pio Yukwan Deng (1967 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Juba
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba ( la, Iubaën(sis)) is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Juba in South Sudan. History * 14 July 1927: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Bahr el-Gebel from the Apostolic Prefecture of Nilo Equatoriale in Uganda * 12 April 1951: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Bahr el-Gebel * 26 May 1961: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Juba * 12 December 1974: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba Special churches The seat of the archbishop is Saint Teresa’s Cathedral in Kator. Bishops Ordinaries ;Prefects Apostolic of Bahr el-Gebel * Giuseppe Zambonardi, M.C.C.I. (1 February 1928 – 1938) * Stephen Mlakic, M.C.C.I. (21 October 1938 – 1950) ;Vicar Apostolic of Bahr el-Gebel * Sisto Mazzoldi, M.C.C.I. (8 July 1950 – 21 April 1951 ''see below'') ; Vicar Apostolic of Juba * Sisto Mazzoldi, M.C.C.I. (''see above'' 21 April 1951 – 12 June 1967), appointed Apostolic Administrator of Moroto, Uganda in 1965 ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudan RC Church Diocese District Map 2007
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Egypt to the north, Eritrea to the northeast, Ethiopia to the southeast, Libya to the northwest, South Sudan to the south and the Red Sea. It has a population of 45.70 million people as of 2022 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), making it Africa's List of African countries by area, third-largest country by area, and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, secession of South Sudan in 2011, since which both titles have been held by Algeria. Its Capital city, capital is Khartoum and its most populated city is Omdurman (part of the metropolitan area of Khar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
