Roman Catholic Church in Guinea-Bissau

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The Roman Catholic Church in Guinea-Bissau is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church .

organization

A little over 10% of Guinea-Bissauers are Catholics.

Chairman of the Bishops' Conference of Senegal from Guinea-Bissau , Cape Verde and Mauritania is Bishop Jean-Noël Diouf , Bishop of Tambacounda . Archbishop Michael Wallace Banach has been the Apostolic Nuncio in Guinea-Bissau since August 2016 .

Pope John Paul II visited Guinea-Bissau in 1990.

The Roman Catholic Church in Guinea-Bissau is divided into two dioceses that are directly subordinate to the Holy See :

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIA World Factbook: Guinea-Bissau (English) data from November 2011

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