Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
Sancti Ludovici Senegalen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Senegal
The Diocese of Saint-Louis du Senegal is a Latin Church diocese in northern Senegal, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Dakar. Bishop Augustin Simmel Ndiaye was appointed in April 2025 and consecrated in July 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 February 1966
- Latin
- Sancti Ludovici Senegalen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002822
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 7,217
- Population
- 2,254,885
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 36
- Catholics per priest
- 200
- Extent
- 73,315 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
- Augustin Simmel Ndiaye
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
Cathédrale Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis stands in Saint-Louis du Sénégal, 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 Dakar
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dakar.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DakarDakar
- Diocese of KaolackKaolack
- Diocese of KoldaKolda
- Diocese of TambacoundaTambacounda
- Diocese of ThièsThiès
- Diocese of ZiguinchorZiguinchor
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
On 2 April 2025 Pope Francis appointed Augustin Simmel Ndiaye (born 2 January 1959), a Senegalese Roman Catholic, as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal in Senegal. He had previously served as a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar. His consecration and installation took place at Saint-Louis on 12 July 2025.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 260, Saint-Louis, Sénégal
- Telephone
- 33.961.11.28; fax 33.961.26.57
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.