List of Catholic dioceses in Ethiopia and Eritrea
The Catholic Church in Ethiopia and Eritrea is joined in a single transnational episcopal conference which, also atypically, includes the Eastern Catholic (Coptic) churches, totaling of two metropolitan archeparchies, six diocesan suffragans (eparchies) and nine pre-diocesan Latin missionary jurisdictions (apostolic vicariates, except one apostolic prefecture).
Each country also has an inter-Catholic national assembly.
- The Latin hierarchy is composed solely of the pre-diocesan missionary jurisdictions in Ethiopia.
- The Eastern Catholics have a Coptic (Alexandrian Rite) particular church sui iuris in each country (both using the Archaic Geez language), each headed by a metropolitan whose ecclesiastical province, covering that nation, is the whole church, with three suffragans each.
Furthermore, there is an Apostolic Nunciature to Ethiopia (papal embassy-level diplomatic representation) in the national capital Addis Abbeba; in it are also vested the Apostolic Nunciatures to Djibouti and to Somalia.
The Apostolic Nunciature to Eritrea is vested in the Apostolic Nunciature to Sudan (in its capital Khartum)
Current jurisdictions
[edit]Latin Church
[edit]all missionary and exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, and in Ethiopia
- Apostolic Vicariate of Awasa
- Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella
- Apostolic Vicariate of Harar
- Apostolic Vicariate of Hosanna
- Apostolic Vicariate of Jimma-Bonga
- Apostolic Vicariate of Meki
- Apostolic Vicariate of Nekemte
- Apostolic Vicariate of Soddo
- Apostolic Prefecture of Robe
Ethiopian Catholic Church
[edit]- Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in the Ge'ez language.
Eritrean Catholic Church
[edit]- Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in the Ge'ez language.
Former jurisdictions
[edit](only in Ethiopia; not counting the former stages of current jurisdictions)
Titular sees
[edit]Suppressed jurisdictions
[edit]- Latin Patriarchate of Ethiopia
- Apostolic Prefecture of Dessié
- Apostolic Prefecture of Endeber
- Apostolic Prefecture of Gondar
See also
[edit]- Christianity in Ethiopia
- Christianity in Eritrea (previously part of Ethiopia)