Diocese of Benghazi
Berenicen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Benghazi, Libya
The Apostolic Vicariate of Benghazi is a Latin Church missionary jurisdiction covering eastern Libya, erected in 1927 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Cyrenaica and renamed in 1939. It is immediately subject to the Holy See and led by Apostolic Vicar Sandro Overend Rigillo, O.F.M., since 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 June 1939
- Latin
- Berenicen(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001000389
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 6,000
- Population
- 1,388,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.4%
- Priests
- 5
- Catholics per priest
- 1,200
- Extent
- 757,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Apostolic Administrator
- Sandro Overend Rigillo, O.F.M.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Benghazi Cathedral stands in Benghazi, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Libya's Apostolic Vicariate of Benghazi (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Berenicensis) is a Latin Church territory answering immediately to the Holy See, belonging to no ecclesiastical province. Benghazi Cathedral, in the city of Benghazi, serves as its cathedral.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Vicariato Apostolico, Rhaba, Benghazi, Libya
- Telephone
- 925.258.954
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.