St Theresa’s Cathedral is a parish of the

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and the cathedral of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba in

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. The cathedral church is located on Unity Avenue in Bahr al Jabal (Central Equatoria) in the district of Kator in the city of

Juba Juba () is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria State. It is the world's newest capital city to be elevated as such, and had a population ...

, Construction of the church began in 1952. It was designated the cathedral upon the erection of the Archdiocese of Juba (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Iubaensis'') on December 12, 1974 by

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with the bull ''Cum in Sudania''. During the civil war in southern Sudan, about 5,000 people took refuge in the cathedral, which was kept shut for days by violent clashes between rival factions of the national army.

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