Diocese of Thiès
Thiesin(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Thiès, Senegal
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 6 February 1969
- Latin
- Thiesin(us)
- Patron
- Saint Anne
- Annuario code
- 001003217
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 44,812
- Population
- 2,000,150
- Catholic share
- 2.2%
- Priests
- 75
- Catholics per priest
- 597
- Extent
- 9,053 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.9
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. 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.
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 Saint-Louis du SénégalSaint-Louis du Sénégal
- Diocese of TambacoundaTambacounda
- Diocese of ZiguinchorZiguinchor
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].