Diocese of El Obeid
Elobeiden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · El Obeid, Sudan
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:
- Archdiocese of KhartoumKhartoum
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
- Chancery
- Catholic Church, P.O. Box 386, 51111 El Obeid, Sudan
- Telephone
- [146]544.27; fax [611]228.20
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
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 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.
Sources
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].