The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar ( la, Dakaren(sis)) is the

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for the

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Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 � ...

History

* February 2, 1863: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Senegambia from the

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* January 27, 1936: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Dakar * September 14, 1955: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dakar

Special churches

The seat of the archbishop is Cathédrale Notre Dame des Victoires in Dakar. There is a

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at Basilique Notre-Dame de la Délivrance in Poponguine.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Senegambia

* Magloire-Désiré Barthet (1889-1898) * Joachim-Pierre Buléon, C.S.Sp. (1899-1900) * François-Nicolas-Alphonse Kunemann, C.S.Sp. (1901-1908) * Hyacinthe-Joseph Jalabert, C.S.Sp. (1909-1920) *

Louis Le Hunsec Louis Le Hunsec, C.S.Sp. (6 January 1878 – 25 December 1954) was a French missionary bishop who served as Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit from 1926 to 1950. He spent most of his earlier career as a missionary in Senegal fro ...

, C.S.Sp. (1920-1926), appointed Superior General of the

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Vicars Apostolic of Dakar

* Auguste Grimault, C.S.Sp. (1927-1946) *

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, C.S.Sp. (1947-1955 ''see below'')

Archbishops of Dakar

* Marcel-François Lefebvre, C.S.Sp. (''see above'' 1955–1962), appointed Archbishop (personal title) of Tulle, France * Hyacinthe Thiandoum (1962-2000) (Cardinal in 1976) * Théodore-Adrien Sarr (2000-2014) (Cardinal in 2007) *

Benjamin Ndiaye Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

(2014–present)

Auxiliary Bishop

Georges-Henri Guibert Georges Guibert (1915 – 1997) was a French Roman Catholic missionary in Senegal and Réunion. He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (; 29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a F ...

, C.S.Sp. (1949-1960), appointed Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion

Suffragan Diocese

* Kaolack * Kolda *

Saint-Louis du Sénégal Saint Louis or Saint-Louis ( wo, Ndar), is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 km north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population official ...

* Tambacounda *

Thiès Thiès (; ar, ثيس, Ṯyass; Noon: ''Chess'') is the third largest city in Senegal with a population officially estimated at 320,000 in 2005. It lies east of Dakar on the N2 road and at the junction of railway lines to Dakar, Bamako and St-L ...

Ziguinchor Ziguinchor (; wo, Siggcoor ; ar, زيغينكور) is the capital of the Ziguinchor Region, and the chief town of the Casamance area of Senegal, lying at the mouth of the Casamance River. It has a population of over 230,000 (2007 estimate). It ...

References

Sources

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