Continent: Western and Northern Africa
Rite: Roman (Latin)
Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese
Name: Freetown / Liberæ Urbis (Latin)
Suffragan Sees: Bo, Kenema, Makeni
Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation
Metropolitan Archbishop (2011.01.15 – ...): | ![]() Vice-President of Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Gambia and Sierra Leone / ITCABIC |
Metropolitan Archbishops of Freetown (Roman Rite) | ||||||||||
Metropolitan Archbishop of Freetown (Sierra Leone)
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Metropolitan Archbishops of Freetown and Bo (Roman Rite) | ||||||||||
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Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone)
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Archbishop Thomas Joseph Brosnahan, C.S.Sp.
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Bishops of Freetown and Bo (Roman Rite) | ||||||||||
Bishop Thomas Joseph Brosnahan, C.S.Sp. (later Archbishop) (see above) | ||||||||||
Bishop Ambrose Kelly, C.S.Sp.
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Vicars Apostolic of Sierra Leone (Roman Rite) | ||||||||||
Bishop Ambrose Kelly, C.S.Sp. (see above) | ||||||||||
Bishop Bartholomew Stanley Wilson, C.S.Sp.
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Bishop John Joseph O’Gorman, C.S.Sp.
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Fr. James Browne, C.S.Sp.
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Fr. Edouard Blanchet, C.S.Sp.
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Venerable Bishop Melchior-Marie-Joseph Marion de Brésillac, S.M.A.
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Address: Santanno House, P.O. Box 893, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Phone: (022) 224.590
Area: 4,677 km²
Population: 87,500 Catholics (4.7% of 1,872,675 total) (2020)
Statistics: 11 parishes, 41 priests (20 diocesan, 21 religious), 52 lay religious (31 brothers, 21 sisters), 4 seminarians (2020)
Last updated on 2023.06.04
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