List of Catholic dioceses in Ethiopia and Eritrea

The Catholic Church in Ethiopia and Eritrea is currently 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 such 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 Rite[]

all missionary and exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See, and in Ethiopia

• Apostolic Vicariate of Awasa
• Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella
• Apostolic Vicariate of Harar
• Apostolic Vicariate of Hosanna
• Apostolic Vicariate of Jimma-Bonga
• Apostolic Vicariate of Meki
• Apostolic Vicariate of Nekemte
• Apostolic Vicariate of Soddo
• Apostolic Prefecture of Robe

Alexandrian Rite[]

(neither has any jurisdiction outside its homeland)

Ethiopian Catholic Church[]

Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in Ge'ez language.

• Metropolitan Archeparchy of Addis Abeba
  • Eparchy of Adigrat
  • Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie
  • Eparchy of Emdeber

Eritrean Catholic Church[]

Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in Ge'ez language.

• Metropolitan Archeparchy of Asmara
  • Eparchy of Barentu
  • Eparchy of Keren
  • Eparchy of Segheneyti

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

Other former jurisdictions[]

(suppressed only)

• Latin Patriarchate of Ethiopia
• Apostolic Prefecture of Dessié
• Apostolic Prefecture of Endeber
• Apostolic Prefecture of Gondar

See also[]

• List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
• Christianity in Ethiopia
• Christianity in Eritrea (previously part of Ethiopia)
• Coptic Catholic Church, in Egypt, in Coptic language