List of Catholic dioceses in Sudan and South Sudan

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).

Ecclesiastical Province of Khartoum
covering all Sudan


 * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Khartoum
 * Diocese of El Obeid

Ecclesiastical Province of Juba
covering all South Sudan


 * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba
 * Diocese of Malakal
 * Diocese of Rumbek
 * Diocese of Tombura-Yambio
 * Diocese of Torit
 * Diocese of Wau
 * Diocese of Yei

Current Eastern Catholic jurisdictions
Three rite-specific churches have competent diocesan jurisdictions, but none is proper to either country alone :

Armenian Church
(Armenian rite in Armenian language)
 * Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Iskanderiya (Alexandria), at Cairo, in and mainly for Egypt

Melkite (Greek) Catholic Church
(Byzantine Rite)
 * Melkite Catholic Patriarchal territory of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan

Syriac Catholic Church
(Antiochene rite in Syriac language)
 * Syriac Catholic Patriarchal territory of Sudan and South Sudan

Defunct jurisdictions
No titular see.

Only direct precursors of present sees, except for one suppressed bishopric in Sudan :
 * Latin Diocese of Dongola

Sources and external links

 * GCatholic.org - data for all sections
 * Eglise Soudan: The Dioceses and Ordinaries of Sudan
 * Catholic-Hierarchy entry.