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List of Catholic dioceses in the Gambia and Sierra Leone

List of Catholic dioceses in the Gambia and Sierra Leone

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The Catholic Church in the Gambia and Sierra Leone, two Anglophone (ex-British) West African countries, is composed solely of a Latin hierarchy, comprising:

There are no Eastern Catholic or pre-diocesan jurisdictions or overlapping ordinariates.

Neither country has a national Episcopal Conference, but they form a joint one for the Gambia and Sierra Leone, which hosts it in Freetown. [1]

There are no titular sees. All defunct jurisdictions are precursors of present sees.

There formally is an Apostolic Nunciature (embassy-level papal diplomatic representation) to Sierra Leone and an Apostolic Nunciature to The Gambia, but both are vested in the Apostolic Nunciature to Liberia (in its capital Monrovia).

Current Latin dioceses

[2] [3]

In The Gambia

In Sierra Leone: Ecclesiastical Province of Freetown

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