Roman Catholic Church in Kuwait

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The Roman Catholic Church in Kuwait is a small minority church in Arabia .

history

It began around 1945 with a Carmelite mission . Mainly shaped by Catholic guest workers , who still make up the majority of the faithful there, the mission station already had 700 believers in 1948 and was able to start building a small church in November 1948 . On June 29, 1953, Kuwait was separated from the Apostolic Vicariate of Arabia , which had its seat in Aden , and with its 17,900 km² raised to an independent Apostolic Prefecture . On December 2, 1954, Kuwait itself became a Vicariate Apostolic and received its first bishop . In 2011 the Vicariate was renamed the Apostolic Vicariate Northern Arabia .

Current situation

See also: Christianity in Kuwait

Today the Apostolic Vicariate counts about 154,000 Catholics of different nationalities . They make up 6.2% of the population and live with 2 diocesan priests and 8 religious priests , as well as 13 religious sisters , in 6 parishes . The last Apostolic Vicar was Camillo Ballin MCCI until his death in April 2020 .

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