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Diocese of El Obeid

Elobeiden(sis)

Latin Church diocese in Sudan covering North and South Kordofan, erected as an apostolic vicariate in 1960 and raised to a diocese in 1974, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Khartoum. The bishop is Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku Andali.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
12 December 1974
Latin
Elobeiden(sis)
Patron
Our Lady Queen of Africa
Annuario code
001001356

The see in figures

Catholics
97,420
Priests
31
Catholics per priest
3,143
Extent
88,939 km²
Catholics per km²
1.1

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

Bishop
Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku Andali
Born
1 January 1964
Birthplace
Tojoro

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

Our Lady Queen of Africa Cathedral stands in El Obeid, 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.

The province of Khartoum

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Khartoum.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

El-Obeid, Sudan, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Obeid (Latin: Elobeiden(sis)), part of the ecclesiastical province of Khartoum.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Catholic Church, P.O. Box 386, 51111 El Obeid, Sudan
Telephone
[146]544.27; fax [611]228.20

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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Sources

Wikipedia · GCatholic

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.