Diocese of Tripoli
Tripolitan(us)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Tripoli, Libya
The Apostolic Vicariate of Tripoli is a Latin Church missionary jurisdiction in Tripolitania, Libya, immediately subject to the Holy See. Following the resignation of Bishop George Bugeja in October 2025, Magdi Helmy Ibrahim Mansour was named Apostolic Administrator.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 June 1939
- Latin
- Tripolitan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000465
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 50,000
- Population
- 4,500,000
- Catholic share
- 1.1%
- Extent
- 1,150,000 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
- Magdi Helmy Ibrahim Mansour
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
St. Francis Pro-Cathedral stands in Tripoli, 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
Tripolitania, Libya is served by the Apostolic Vicariate of Tripoli (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Tripolitanus), a Latin Church missionary territory that belongs to no ecclesiastical province, being immediately exempt to the Holy See and depending on the Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Though the vicariate keeps the name of its episcopal see, it lacks a cathedral: Tripoli Cathedral was converted into a mosque. For now the St. Francis Pro-Cathedral in the city of Tripoli fills that role, serving at the same time as a parish church.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- San Francesco Catholic Church, P.O. Box 365, Dahra, Tripoli, Libya
- Telephone
- 928.063.852
- [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].