The Catholic Church in Sudan and South Sudan is composed of
- one Latin hierarchy, united in one single episcopal conference, designated as Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, comprising an ecclesiastical province under a Metropolitan Archdiocese per country, with a total of 7 suffragan dioceses.
- three Eastern Catholic transnational jurisdictions, each covering both countries (the Melkite one mainly in Egypt).
There is also an Apostolic nunciature to Sudan (papal diplomatic representation, embassy-level) in national capital Khartoum (into which to nunciature to Eritrea is also vested),
and an Apostolic nunciature to South Sudan, but that last office in vested in the nunciature to Kenya (in Nairobi).
Current Latin dioceses
editEcclesiastical Province of Khartoum
editcovering all Sudan
Ecclesiastical Province of Juba
editcovering all South Sudan
Current Eastern Catholic jurisdictions
editThree rite-specific churches have competent diocesan jurisdictions, but none is proper to either country alone :
Armenian Church
edit(Armenian rite in Armenian language)
- Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Iskanderiya (Alexandria), at Cairo, in and mainly for Egypt
Melkite (Greek) Catholic Church
editSyriac Catholic Church
editDefunct jurisdictions
editNo titular see.
Only direct precursors of present sees, except for one suppressed bishopric in Sudan :
- Latin Diocese of Dongola