Diocese of Mogadishu

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Diocese of Mogadishu
Basic data
Country Somalia
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Sedis vacancy
Apostolic Administrator Giorgio Bertin OFM
Vicar General Valentino Mastaglia OFM
founding 1904
surface 637,657 km²
Residents 8,073,000 (December 31, 2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics 100 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
proportion of 0%
Diocesan priest 1 (December 31, 2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 100
cathedral Destroyed in 1998
address CP 273, Ahmed Bin Idris, Mogadiscio, Somalia

The Diocese of Mogadishu ( Mogadishu ) ( lat. : Dioecesis Mogadiscensis ) is an in Somalia situated Roman Catholic diocese, based in Mogadishu and throughout Somalia covers. It went down immediately , but de facto as a result of the civil war in the country .

history

The cathedral, built during the Italian colonial period and largely destroyed in 2008, at the end of the 1980s

On January 21, 1904, in what was then Italian Somaliland, the Apostolic Prefecture of Banaadir was established from the Apostolic Vicariate of North Zanzibar , which was elevated to the Apostolic Vicariate on December 15, 1927 and was named Mogadishu . On November 20, 1975, the Vicariate Apostolic of Mogadishu was elevated to a diocese . The last bishop of Mogadishu Pietro Salvatore Colombo (* 1922 in Carate Brianza ) was killed by Islamists on July 9, 1989 during a church service and the cathedral church with the adjoining monastery from 1928 was completely destroyed. After the murder of the nun Leonella Sgorbati in 2006, her three last sisters left the country.

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefect of Banaadir 1904–1927

Vicars Apostolic of Mogadishu 1927–1975

Bishops of Mogadishu from 1975

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Mogadishu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La fede Negata, Avvenire 28 September 2008
  2. ^ Il Giornale, October 3, 2008
  3. ↑ "Death of a Nun", FAZ June 21, 2006