The

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

Sudan 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 t ...

and

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 C ...

is composed of * one Latin hierarchy, united in one single

episcopal conference An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities. The first assembly of bishops to ...

, designated as ''Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference'', comprising an

ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United State ...

under a Metropolitan Archdiocese per country, with a total of 7

suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...

dioceses. * three Eastern Catholic transnational jurisdictions, each covering both countries (the Melkite one mainly in Egypt). There is also an Apostolic nunciature to Sudan (papal diplomatic representation, embassy-level) in national capital

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

(into which to nunciature to

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

is also vested),
and an Apostolic nunciature to South Sudan, but that last office in vested in the nunciature to

Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

(in

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...

Current Latin dioceses

Ecclesiastical Province of Khartoum

covering all

* Metropolitan Archdiocese of Khartoum ** Diocese of El Obeid

Ecclesiastical Province of Juba

covering all

* Metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba **

Diocese of Malakal The Roman Catholic Diocese of Malakal ( la, Malakalen(sis)) is a diocese in Malakal in the Ecclesiastical province of Juba in South Sudan. History * January 10, 1933: Established as Mission “sui iuris” of Kodok from Apostolic Vicariate of K ...

** Diocese of Rumbek ** Diocese of Tombura-Yambio ** Diocese of Torit ** Diocese of Wau ** Diocese of Yei

Current Eastern Catholic jurisdictions

Three rite-specific churches have competent diocesan jurisdictions, but none is proper to either country alone :

Armenian Church

(

Armenian rite The Armenian Rite () is an independent liturgy used by both the Armenian Apostolic and Armenian Catholic Churches. Liturgy The liturgy is patterned after the directives of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, first official head and patron saint ...

Armenian language Armenian ( classical: , reformed: , , ) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of languages. It is the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian Highlands, today Armenian is widely spoken t ...

) *

Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Iskanderiya The Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Alexandria (or Iskanderiya) is a suffragan eparchy (Eastern Catholicdiocese) of the Armenian Catholic Church ''sui iuris'' (Armenian Rite in Armenian language), in the Patriarch's own 'ecclesiastical province of Ci ...

(Alexandria), at Cairo, in and mainly for

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

Melkite (Greek) Catholic Church

(

Byzantine Rite The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople. Th ...

) *

Melkite Catholic Patriarchal territory of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan The Melkite Patriarchal Dependent Territory of Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan is the presence of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in the Northern African countries of Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), offi ...

Syriac Catholic Church

(

Antiochene rite Antiochene Rite or Antiochian Rite refers to the family of liturgies originally used by the Patriarchate of Antioch. Liturgies in the Antiochene Rite The Antiochian Rite, or the Antiochian Rite family, consists of Apostolic Liturgies including ...

Syriac language The Syriac language (; syc, / '), also known as Syriac Aramaic (''Syrian Aramaic'', ''Syro-Aramaic'') and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language, Aramaic dialect that emerged during ...

) *

Syriac Catholic Patriarchal territory of Sudan and South Sudan The Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Dependency of Sudan and South Sudan is missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Eastern Catholic Syriac Catholic Church (''sui iuris'', Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) covering Sudan and South Sudan. It is ...

Defunct jurisdictions

No titular see. Only direct precursors of present sees, except for one suppressed bishopric in Sudan : * Latin

Diocese of Dongola Dongola ( ar, دنقلا, Dunqulā), also spelled ''Dunqulah'', is the capital of the state of Northern Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, and a former Latin Catholic bishopric (14th century). It should not be confused with Old Dongola, an ancien ...

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org - data for all sections

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