Archdiocese of Freetown

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Archdiocese of Freetown
Basic data
Country Sierra Leone
Diocesan bishop Edward Tamba Charles
Emeritus diocesan bishop Joseph Henry Ganda
surface 4,677 km²
Parishes 11 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 1,657,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 77,400 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 4.7%
Diocesan priest 14 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 32 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,683
Friars 38 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 16 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Sacred Heart Cathedral
Website www.catholicchurchsl.org
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Bo
Diocese of Kenema
Diocese of Makeni
St. Anthony in Freetown

The Archdiocese of Freetown ( Latin Archidioecesis liberae Urbis , English Archdiocese of Freetown ) is an in Sierra Leone situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Freetown .

history

Pope Pius IX founded the Apostolic Vicariate of Sierra Leone on April 13, 1858 from cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate of the two Guineas and Senegambias . With the Apostolic Constitution Laeto accepimus she was raised to a diocese on April 18, 1950 and took the name of the Diocese of Freetown and Bo .

With the bull Quantum boni it was raised to the rank of metropolitan archbishopric on November 11, 1970 . On January 15, 2011, the Archdiocese was divided into the Archdiocese of Freetown and the Diocese of Bo .

It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Sierra Leone

Bishops of Freetown and Bo

  • Ambrose Kelly CSSp (April 18, 1950 - February 12, 1952)
  • Thomas Joseph Brosnahan CSSp (December 11, 1952 - November 11, 1970)

Archbishops of Freetown and Bo

Archbishop of Freetown

  • Edward Tamba Charles (since January 15, 2011)

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes source
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per
priest 		Friars Religious sisters
1950 11,079 2,250,000 0.5 38 38 291 40 28 4th Annuario Pontificio 1951
1970 37.096 1,282,789 2.9 50 1 49 741 52 44 20th Annuario Pontificio 1971
1980 40,426 974,000 4.2 35 5 30th 1,155 32 40 14th Annuario Pontificio 1981
1990 41,102 1,068,000 3.8 35 18th 17th 1,174 19th 57 19th Annuario Pontificio 1991
1997 88,600 1,655,600 5.4 48 29 19th 1,845 46 56 21st Annuario Pontificio 2000
2000 91,500 1,800,000 5.1 52 30th 22nd 1,759 32 56 22nd Annuario Pontificio 2001
2001 24,221 1,823,000 1.3 49 30th 19th 494 31 7th 22nd Annuario Pontificio 2002
2002 97.234 2,300,875 4.2 55 37 18th 1,767 34 8th 22nd Annuario Pontificio 2003
2003 101,678 2,800,993 3.6 58 40 18th 1,753 39 21st 22nd Annuario Pontificio 2004
2004 127.851 2,918,000 4.4 57 41 16 2,243 33 25th 27 Annuario Pontificio 2005
2006 141,200 3,214,700 4.4 52 39 13 2,715 33 29 26th Annuario Pontificio 2007
2007 144,000 3,283,000 4.4 66 51 15th 2,181 5 39 32 26th Annuario Pontificio 2008
2011 20,000 1,776,871 1.1 40 25th 15th 500 31 23 13 Bulletin dated January 15, 2011
2012 70,000 1,500,000 4.7 36 25th 11 1,944 35 14th 15th Annuario Pontificio 2013
2013 71,800 1,538,000 4.7 37 20th 17th 1,940 34 18th 12 Annuario Pontificio 2014
2016 77,400 1,657,000 4.7 32 18th 14th 2,418 38 16 11 Annuario Pontificio 2017

See also

literature

  • Bengt Sundkler, Christopher Steed: A History of the Church in Africa (=  Studia missionalia Upsaliensia . Volume 74 ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-58342-8 (English, 1232 pages).
  • Richard Trillo: The Rough Guide to West Africa . Penguin, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4053-8070-6 , pp. 631 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Archdiocese of Freetown on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on April 13, 2019. (English)
  2. ^ Brief History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown , accessed April 13, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Benedict XVI. : Boënsis Apostolic Constitution of January 15, 2011, accessed April 13, 2019 (Latin)