Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Victoria, Seychelles

The Catholic Church in

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, ...

is part of the worldwide

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, under the spiritual leadership of the

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. There are around 70,000 Catholics in the Seychelles - almost 76.2% of the total population.gcatholic.org
/ref> Seychelles forms a single

diocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...

- the Diocese of Port Victoria.

References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dpvos.html

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