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Archdiocese of Dakar

Dakaren(sis)

Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Dakar, Senegal

The Archdiocese of Dakar is the metropolitan see of Senegal, erected as an apostolic vicariate in 1863 and raised to a metropolitan archdiocese on September 14, 1955. Archbishop André Gueye was appointed on February 22, 2025.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
14 September 1955
Latin
Dakaren(sis)
Annuario code
001001261

The see in figures

Catholics
538,940
Priests
215
Catholics per priest
2,507
Extent
4,803 km²
Catholics per km²
112

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

Archbishop
André Gueye
Born
6 January 1967
Birthplace
Palo Yougo

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 Notre-Dame des Victoires stands in Dakar, 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

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

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

History

For the ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal, the Metropolitan See is the Archdiocese of Dakar (Latin: Dakaren(sis); French: Archidiocèse catholique romain de Dakar).

What is kept by invitation

The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.

The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].