List of Catholic dioceses in Ethiopia and Eritrea explained
The Catholic Church in Ethiopia and Eritrea is joined in a single transnational episcopal conference which, also atypically, includes the Eastern Catholic (Coptic) churches, totaling of two metropolitan archeparchies, six diocesan suffragans (eparchies) and nine pre-diocesan Latin missionary jurisdictions (apostolic vicariates, except one apostolic prefecture).
Each country also has an inter-Catholic national assembly.
- The Latin hierarchy is composed solely of the pre-diocesan missionary jurisdictions in Ethiopia.
- The Eastern Catholics have a Coptic (Alexandrian Rite) particular church sui iuris in each country (both using the Archaic Geez language), each headed by a metropolitan whose ecclesiastical province, covering that nation, is the whole church, with three suffragans each.
Furthermore, there is an Apostolic Nunciature to Ethiopia (papal embassy-level diplomatic representation) in the national capital Addis Abbeba; in it are also vested the Apostolic Nunciatures to Djibouti and to Somalia.
The Apostolic Nunciature to Eritrea is vested in the Apostolic Nunciature to Sudan (in its capital Khartum)
Current jurisdictions
Latin Church
all missionary and exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, and in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Catholic Church
- Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in the Ge'ez language.
Eritrean Catholic Church
- Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in the Ge'ez language.
Former jurisdictions
(only in Ethiopia; not counting the former stages of current jurisdictions)
Titular sees
- Titular Metropolitan See of Adulis
- Titular Episcopal See of Axomis
Suppressed jurisdictions
See also
