The Catholic Church in

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 is composed of * one Latin hierarchy, united in one single episcopal conference, designated as ''Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference'', comprising an ecclesiastical province 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 (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 (in Nairobi).

Current Latin dioceses

Ecclesiastical Province of Khartoum

covering all

* Metropolitan Archdiocese of Khartoum ** Diocese of El Obeid

Ecclesiastical Province of Juba

covering all South Sudan * 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 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yei ( la, Yeien(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Yei in the Ecclesiastical province of Juba in South Sudan. History * March 21, 1986: Established as Diocese of Yei from Archdiocese of Juba Leadership * Bi ...

Current Eastern Catholic jurisdictions

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

Armenian Church

( Armenian rite in Armenian language) * Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Iskanderiya (Alexandria), at Cairo, in and mainly for Egypt

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

Syriac Catholic Church

( Antiochene rite in

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

Defunct jurisdictions

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

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org - data for all sections

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