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Diocese of Thiès

Thiesin(us)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Thiès, Senegal

The Diocese of Thiès is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal, erected in 1969. The see has been vacant since Bishop André Guèye was named Archbishop of Dakar in 2025, with Msgr. Albert Sène serving as diocesan administrator.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
6 February 1969
Latin
Thiesin(us)
Patron
Saint Anne
Annuario code
001003217

The see in figures

Catholics
44,812
Population
2,000,150
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
2.2%
Priests
75
Catholics per priest
597
Extent
9,053 km²
Catholics per km²
4.9

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

The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathédrale Sainte Anne stands in Thiès, 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:

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

History

The city of Thiès in Senegal is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Thiesin(us); French: Diocèse catholique romain de Thiès) within the ecclesiastical province of Dakar. On Friday, January 18, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI named the Rev. André Gueye Bishop-designate of the diocese, with ordination and installation to follow (which would be May 25). Until that appointment he had served among the Thiès diocesan clergy and as a professor of philosophy at the Major Seminary of Saint Jean Marie Vianney in Bris, Senegal, within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ziguinchor in Ziguinchor, Senegal.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

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