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The Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference (SCBC) consists of all the archbishops and bishops of South Sudan and Sudan.
The first meeting of the Ordinaries of Sudan held in Khartoum in late 1929, during the visit of the Apostolic Delegate for East Africa, based in Mombasa, Kenya, Arthur Hinsley.
In the fifties were held periodic meetings of the Ordinaries of Sudan, until in December 1974 was established the local hierarchy and the Sudan was born Episcopal Conference, who in 1976 became known as the Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference (SCBC).
Its headquarters is in Khartoum. The statutes were approved by the Holy See in 1989. The SCBC is a member of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) and Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
1970–1973: Ireneus Wien Dud, Bishop of Wau
1973–1974: Pio Yukwan Deng, Bishop of Malakal
1975–1978: Joseph Abangite Gasi, bishop of Tombura-Yambio
1978–1989: Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Bishop of Wau, and then Coadjutor Archbishop of Khartoum
1989–1993: Paulino Lukudu Loro, Archbishop of Juba
1993–1999: Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum
1999 – present: Paulino Lukudu Loro, Archbishop of Juba
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Gabriel Zubeir Wako is a Sudanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Wau is a city in northwestern South Sudan, on the western bank of the Jur River, that serves as capital for Western Bahr el Ghazal. It lies approximately 650 kilometres (400 mi) northwest of the capital Juba. A culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse urban center and trading hub, Wau is also the former headquarters of Western Bahr el Ghazal.
The Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, formerly known as the Episcopal Church of Sudan, is a province of the Anglican Communion located in South Sudan. The province consists of eight Internal Provinces and 61 dioceses. The current archbishop and primate is Justin Badi Arama. It received the current naming after the inception of the Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, on 30 July 2017.
Deim Zubeir, from the Arabic ديم الزبير ["Daim az-Zubayr"], commonly translated as the "Camp of Zubeir", is the historically established but highly controversial name of Uyujuku town in the Western Bahr el Ghazal of the Republic of South Sudan, located in the Western Bahr El Ghazal part of the country, some 70 km from the border with the Central African Republic (CAR), near the Biri tributary of the River Chel.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum is the Latin Metropolitan archbishopric with See in national capital Khartoum whose Ecclesiastical province, including the suffragan Obeid, covers Sudan.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Juba in South Sudan.
The Diocese of Wau is a Latin Church is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in South Sudan. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba, and depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek is a diocese in Rumbek in the Ecclesiastical province of Juba in South Sudan.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of El Obeid is a diocese in El-Obeid in the Ecclesiastical province of Khartoum in Sudan.
Renato "Kizito" Sesana is an Italian Comboni missionary, journalist and humanitarian worker. He is well known for his work to rescue the street children of Nairobi.
The Catholic Church in South Sudan is composed of one ecclesiastical province with one archdiocese and six suffragan dioceses. There have been a total of 31 bishops in South Sudan to date. The bishops of South Sudan and Sudan are currently members of one single bishops' conference, designated as Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar or SECAM is an agency of the Catholic Church which includes the bishops of Africa and Madagascar.
The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) is the association of episcopal conferences of Eastern Africa and the coordinating body of the Catholic dioceses. The AMECEA was established in 1961, with Cardinal Archbishop of Lusaka Adam Kozlowiecki, SJ, its founding president. It is one of ten members of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
The local assembly of bishops is the Episcopal Conference of the Côte d'Ivoire. Founded in 1970, the Episcopal Conference has been officially recognized on February 16, 2007 by the Ivorian state. It includes all the Catholic bishops of the country, ordinary, and auxiliary emeritus. It has its headquarters in Abidjan.
Daniel Deng Bul Yak is a South Sudanese Episcopalian bishop. He was the fourth Archbishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, now called Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, since his enthronement on 20 April 2008 and until his retirement on 22 April 2018. He is married and has six children.
Paulino Lukudu Loro was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan, from 1983 to 2019.
This article lists events in 2021 in South Sudan.
Christian Carlassare, MCCJ is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who became bishop of the Diocese of Rumbek in South Sudan in March 2021. His episcopal consecration and installation were delayed for a year after he was injured in an assault. He is a member of the Comboni Missionaries and has worked in South Sudan since 2005.
Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, also known as Stephen Ameyu and Stephen Ameyu Martin, is a South Sudanese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Juba since 2020, after serving less than a year as Bishop of Torit.
