The Catholic Church in Sudan 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 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 is also vested),
and an Apostolic nunciature to South Sudan, but that last office in vested in the nunciature to Kenya (in Nairobi).
Map of Latin Catholic Dioceses in Sudan (1-2) and South Sudan (3-9) :
Sudan:
1 Diocese of El Obeid
2 Archdiocese of Khartoum
South Sudan:
3 Diocese of Wau
4 Diocese of Rumbek
5 Diocese of Malakal
6 Diocese of Tombura-Yambio
7 Diocese of Yei
8 Archdiocese of Juba
9 Diocese of Torit
Current Latin dioceses
Ecclesiastical Province of Khartoum
covering all Sudan
Ecclesiastical Province of Juba
covering all South Sudan
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
Syriac Catholic Church
Defunct jurisdictions
No titular see.
Only direct precursors of present sees, except for one suppressed bishopric in Sudan :
- Latin Diocese of Dongola
See also
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