Bishopric of Banjul

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Bishopric of Banjul
Map of the Bishopric of Banjul
Basic data
Country Gambia
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Gabriel Mendy CSSp
Emeritus diocesan bishop Robert Patrick Ellison CSSp
Michael J. Cleary CSSp
founding 1931
surface 10,403 km²
Parishes 20 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Residents 2,159,000 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics 46,100 (2018 / AP 2019 )
proportion of 2.1%
Diocesan priest 20 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious priest 14 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics per priest 1,356
Friars 28 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious sisters 61 (2018 / AP 2019 )
rite Roman rite
cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption
Website http://www.banjuldiocese.gm/

The immediate Diocese of Banjul ( Latin Dioecesis Baniulensis , English Diocese of Banjul ) is an in Gambia situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Banjul .

history

The diocese was founded on May 6, 1931 as Mission sui juris and, after it had become the Apostolic Prefecture of Bathurst in Gambia on March 8, 1951 , on June 24, 1957, it was elevated to the position of Bathurst in Gambia. On May 9, 1974, after the name of the capital was changed, the name was changed to the Diocese of Banjul.

The area is an old mission area of ​​the Spiritan Fathers , who still provide the bishop of the diocese today. It covers the entire country of Gambia (11,295 km²) and in 2006 had around 42,400 Catholics. Banjul has had local diocesan priests since the 1980s, in 2002 there were 13, so that one is no longer solely dependent on the twelve religious priests, most of whom come from abroad. Furthermore , eleven lay brothers and 45 religious sisters live in the 56 parishes of the diocese .

Bishops

From 1981 Bishop Michael J. Cleary CSSp (born September 1, 1925) was in office until 2006 when he resigned at the age of eighty. His resignation was made by Pope Benedict XVI. adopted on February 25 and Bishop Robert Patrick Ellison CSSp (born February 12, 1942) was designated as his successor.

It should also be mentioned that the well-known Bishop Johannes Dyba (born September 15, 1929 in Berlin ; † July 23, 2000 in Fulda ) on August 25, 1979 by Pope John Paul II as Apostolic Pronuntius in Liberia and Gambia and as an Apostolic Delegate for Guinea and Sierra Leone .

List of bishops

Apostolic Prefects of the Apostolic Prefecture of Bathurst:

  1. 1931-1946: John Meehan CSSp
  2. 1946–1951: Matteo Farrelly CSSp

Bishops of the Diocese of Bathurst (later the Diocese of Banjul):

  1. 1951–1981: Michael Joseph Moloney CSSp
  2. 1981-2006: Michael J. Cleary CSSp
  3. 2006–2017: Robert Patrick Ellison CSSp
  4. since 2017: Gabriel Mendy CSSp

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIA World Factbook: Gambia (English) What is meant here is the entire area of ​​the state; that is, land and water.