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Metropolitan see Freetown, Sierra Leone

Archdiocese of Freetown

Liberae Urbis

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Freetown, established as a vicariate in 1858 and raised to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1970, is the Latin Church metropolitan see for Sierra Leone with suffragans Bo, Kenema and Makeni. Edward Tamba Charles has been archbishop since 2008.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Sacred Heart Cathedral, Freetown, in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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Established
1950
Catholics
87,500
Priests
41
Territory
4,678 km²

Parishes and churches

32 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Edward Tamba Charles
Born
18 April 1956
Birthplace
Kainkordu

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The cathedral

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Freetown stands in Freetown, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Sierra Leone's capital and most populous city supplies both the name and the episcopal see of the Archdiocese of Freetown (Archidioecesis Liberae Urbis), a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in that African country. Freetown ranks as a metropolitan see, with three suffragan dioceses answering to it within its ecclesiastical province.

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