The Catholic Church in the Comoros is part of the worldwide

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, under the spiritual leadership of the

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. There are very few Catholics in this overwhelmingly Islamic country - around 4,300 in total representing about 0.5% of the total population. No

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have been established, but the whole of the country forms the

Apostolic Vicariate of the Comoros Archipelago The Apostolic Vicariate of the Comoros Archipelago is a tiny Latin apostolic vicariate (missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Roman Catholic Church in the Indian Ocean between insular Madagascar and continental Africa, comprising the Comor ...

.Catholic Hierarchy
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