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.
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)
all missionary and exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, and in Ethiopia
Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in the Ge'ez language.
Forming a single ecclesiastical province, constituting an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris using the Alexandrian Rite in the Ge'ez language.
(only in Ethiopia; not counting the former stages of current jurisdictions)