The Archdiocese of Bamako is the Metropolitan Archdiocesan See for the ecclesiastical province which covers all and only Mali. It depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Archdiocese of Bamako Archidioecesis Bamakoënsis Archidiocèse de Bamako | |
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Location | |
Country | Mali |
Ecclesiastical province | Bamako |
Statistics | |
Area | 32,908 sq mi (85,230 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 4,650,549 138,165 (3%) |
Parishes | 10 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 1868 |
Cathedral | Sacred Heart Cathedral |
Secular priests | 33 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Jean Zerbo |
Website | |
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The cathedral seat of the archbishop is the Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in national capital Bamako.
As of 2014, it pastorally served 134,982 Catholics (3.1% of 4,332,101 total) on 85,000 km² in 10 parishes and 1 mission with 31 priests (13 diocesan, 18 religious), 159 lay religious (42 brothers, 117 sisters) and 14 seminarians.
The Metropolitan's suffragan sees are the:
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