The St. Joseph Cathedral (french: Cathédrale Saint-Joseph) is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in
Mopti
Mopti ( Bambara: ߡߏߕߌ tr. Moti) is a town and an urban commune in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali. The town is the capital of the Mopti Cercle and the Mopti Region. Situated 630 km northeast of Bamako, the town lies at the conflue ...
in the fifth administrative region of Mopti in central African country of
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
. The cathedral is located near Independence Avenue and Kanaga and Le Fleuve hotels. It was established in 1953 as the Parish of St. Joseph.
It is a temple that follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the seat of the diocese of Mopti (''Dioecesis Moptiensis'' or ''Diocèse de Mopti'') which was created in 1964 by bula ''More institutoque'' of
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...
.
It is under the pastoral responsibility of the Bishop Georges Fonghoro.
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Mali
The Catholic Church in Mali is part of the worldwide Catholic Church (particularly the Latin Church), under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
There are just under 200,000 Catholics in Mali, around 1.5% of the total population.
Dioces ...
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St. Joseph Cathedral (disambiguation)
References
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Mali
Mopti
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1953
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings
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