Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
| Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Senegal |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Dakar |
| Diocesan bishop | Ernest Sambou |
| founding | 1763 |
| surface | 73,315 km² |
| Parishes | 7 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Residents | 1,578,853 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Catholics | 4,850 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| proportion of | 0.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 8 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Religious priest | 8 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 303 |
| Friars | 10 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Religious sisters | 19 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | French |
| cathedral | Cathédrale Saint Louis |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal ( Latin Dioecesis Sancti Ludovici Senegalensis ) is in Senegal situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Saint-Louis . It includes the three regions of Saint-Louis , Louga and Matam .
history
Pope Clement XIII. founded the Apostolic Prefecture Sénégal in 1763 from cession of territory by the diocese of Funchal . On January 27, 1936, with the Apostolic Constitution Non semel Apostolica, she took the name, Apostolic Prefecture Saint-Louis du Sénégal.
On February 15, 1966 she was raised to the diocese with the Bull Christi Ecclesia and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Dakar as a suffragan diocese.
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- May 6, 1931 to the Mission sui juris Gambia
- December 18, 1965 to the diocese of Nouakchott
- August 13, 1970 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Tambacounda
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Sénégal
- Jean-Claude Duret CSSp (1856 - August 22, 1873, then Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia )
- François-Marie Duboin CSSp (July 20, 1876 - July 1883, resigned)
- François-Xavier Riehl CSSp (November 23, 1883 - July 23, 1886, died)
- Mathurin Picarda CSSp (July 14, 1887 - January 22, 1889, died)
- Joachim-Pierre Buléon CSSp (died June 6, 1899 - June 13, 1900)
- François-Nicolas-Alphonse Kunemann CSSp (February 27, 1901 - March 20, 1908, died)
- Hyacinthe-Joseph Jalabert CSSp (February 13, 1909 - January 12, 1920, died)
- Louis Le Hunsec CSSp (June 26, 1920 - July 26, 1926, then Superior General of the Spiritans )
Apostolic Prefect of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
- Joseph Landreau CSSp (1955–1965, died)
Bishops of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
- Prosper Paul Dodds CSSp (February 15, 1966 - January 12, 1973, died)
- Pierre Sagna CSSp (December 19, 1974 - February 22, 2003, resigned)
- Ernest Sambou , since February 22, 2003
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1969 | 1,523 | 585,000 | 0.3 | 15th | 15th | 101 | 23 | 19th | 6th | ||
| 1980 | 2,319 | 976,000 | 0.2 | 10 | 10 | 231 | 16 | 20th | 3 | ||
| 1990 | 3,601 | 1,140,735 | 0.3 | 18th | 3 | 15th | 200 | 24 | 25th | 7th | |
| 1999 | 4,039 | 1,404,664 | 0.3 | 20th | 6th | 14th | 201 | 21st | 22nd | 6th | |
| 2000 | 3,799 | 1,545,238 | 0.2 | 20th | 6th | 14th | 189 | 23 | 21st | 6th | |
| 2001 | 4.012 | 1,545,238 | 0.3 | 16 | 6th | 10 | 250 | 17th | 18th | 6th | |
| 2002 | 4,020 | 1,545,238 | 0.3 | 17th | 7th | 10 | 236 | 16 | 18th | 6th | |
| 2003 | 4.142 | 1,545,238 | 0.3 | 14th | 7th | 7th | 295 | 12 | 14th | 6th | |
| 2004 | 4,850 | 1,578,853 | 0.3 | 16 | 8th | 8th | 303 | 10 | 19th | 7th | |