Diocese of Mogadishu
Mogadiscen(sis)
Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · Mogadishu, Somalia
The Diocese of Mogadishu is the sole Latin Church diocese in Somalia, immediately subject to the Holy See. The see has been vacant since the assassination of Bishop Salvatore Colombo in 1989, and Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti has served as apostolic administrator since 2001.
The see
- Rank
- Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 November 1975
- Latin
- Mogadiscen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002258
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 100
- Population
- 10,428,043
- Catholic share
- 0.0%
- Priests
- 1
- Catholics per priest
- 100
- Extent
- 637,657 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Apostolic Administrator
- Jamal Khader
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
Mogadishu Cathedral stands in Mogadishu, 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.
History
Somalia has a single Catholic diocese, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mogadishu (Latin: Mogadiscen(sis)), seated in the city of Mogadishu and covering territory that coincides with the whole country. The see has been vacant since 1989, when its last bishop, Salvatore Colombo, was assassinated. The diocese belongs to the Conference of the Latin Bishops of the Arab Regions.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Boulevard de la République, B.P. 94, Djibouti, Rép. de Djibouti
- Telephone
- 21.35.01.40; fax 21.35.48.31
- [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].