Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
Sancti Ludovici Senegalen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Senegal
The Diocese of Saint-Louis du Senegal is a Latin Church diocese in northern Senegal, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Dakar. Bishop Augustin Simmel Ndiaye was appointed in April 2025 and consecrated in July 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 February 1966
- Latin
- Sancti Ludovici Senegalen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002822
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 7,217
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
- Augustin Simmel Ndiaye
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 Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis stands in Saint-Louis du Sénégal, 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:
- Archdiocese of DakarDakar
- Diocese of KaolackKaolack
- Diocese of KoldaKolda
- Diocese of TambacoundaTambacounda
- Diocese of ThièsThiès
- Diocese of ZiguinchorZiguinchor
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
On 2 April 2025 Pope Francis appointed Augustin Simmel Ndiaye (born 2 January 1959), a Senegalese Roman Catholic, as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal in Senegal. He had previously served as a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar. His consecration and installation took place at Saint-Louis on 12 July 2025.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 260, Saint-Louis, Sénégal
- Telephone
- 33.961.11.28; fax 33.961.26.57
- [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].