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Suffragan diocese Thiès, Senegal

Diocese of Thiès

Thiesin(us)

The Diocese of Thiès is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal, erected in 1969. The see has been vacant since Bishop André Guèye was named Archbishop of Dakar in 2025, with Msgr. Albert Sène serving as diocesan administrator.

On the map

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Thiès, Senegal, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1969
Catholics
44,812
Priests
75
Territory
9,053 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

No bishop is recorded for this diocese. See the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathédrale Sainte Anne stands in Thiès, 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

The city of Thiès in Senegal is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Thiesin(us); French: Diocèse catholique romain de Thiès) within the ecclesiastical province of Dakar. On Friday, January 18, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI named the Rev. André Gueye Bishop-designate of the diocese, with ordination and installation to follow (which would be May 25). Until that appointment he had served among the Thiès diocesan clergy and as a professor of philosophy at the Major Seminary of Saint Jean Marie Vianney in Bris, Senegal, within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ziguinchor in Ziguinchor, Senegal.

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