Addis Ababa Arch Parchy
| Addis Ababa Arch Parchy | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Rite church | Ethiopian Catholic Church |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Ecclesiastical province | Addis Ababa |
| Diocesan bishop | Berhaneyesus Demerew Cardinal Souraphiel CM |
| Vicar General | Kidanemariam Ghebray |
| founding | 1839 |
| surface | 291,424 km² |
| Parishes | 23 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 ) |
| Residents | 25,896,000 (December 31, 2007 / AP2008 ) |
| Catholics | 27,580 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 ) |
| proportion of | 0.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 25 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 ) |
| Religious priest | 33 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 476 |
| Permanent deacons | 0 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 ) |
| Friars | 92 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 ) |
| Religious sisters | 252 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 ) |
| rite | Ethiopian Rite ( Alexandrian Rite ) |
| cathedral | Cathedral of the Nativity of Mary |
| Website | [1] |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Eparchie Adigrat Eparchie Emdeber Eparchie Bahir Dar-Dessie |
The archeparchy Addis Ababa ( lat. : Archidioecesis Neanthopolitanus ) is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church Uniate Ethiopian Catholic Church .
It was founded in 1839 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Abyssinia from the cession of territory by the Vicariate Apostolic Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus . The Italian Lazarist Justinus de Jacobis was called as Apostolic Prefect of Abyssinia . The prefecture of Abyssinia gave up on May 4, 1846 parts of its territory as the Apostolic Vicariate Galla . The prefecture itself was then elevated to the rank of Apostolic Vicariate in 1847 . On March 25, 1937, the Apostolic Prefectures of Tigrai , Dessié and Gondar were spun off from him and the name of the Apostolic Vicariate was changed to Addis Ababa.
Raised to the Apostolic Exarchate on October 31, 1951 , the areas of the dissolved Apostolic Prefectures Dessié, Emdeber and Gondar were returned to him. Raised an archbishopric and metropolitan on February 20, 1961 , the Apostolic Exarchate of Emdeber was removed from him on November 25, 2003 .