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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 Catholic Church in Mali is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
The Archdiocese of Lusaka is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Zambia, where it is also considered its national primatial see.
The Archdiocese of Kampala is the Metropolitan See for the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical province of Kampala in Uganda.
The Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tamale is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Tamale in Ghana.
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 Kasama is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Kasama in Zambia.
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 Kayes is a diocese located in the city of Kayes in the ecclesiastical province of Bamako in Mali.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mopti is a diocese located in the city of Mopti in the ecclesiastical province of Bamako in Mali. After the death of bishop Georges Fonghoro, the diocese of Mopti is vacant. On 27 March 2020, Jean-Baptiste Tiama was appointed to this see, with no information yet about installation.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ségou is a diocese located in the city of Ségou in the ecclesiastical province of Bamako in Mali.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sikasso is a diocese located in the city of Sikasso in the ecclesiastical province of Bamako in Mali.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of N'Zérékoré is a diocese located in the city of N'Zérékoré in the ecclesiastical province of Conakry in Guinea.
The Diocese of Laghouat is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church covering the sparsely populated Saharan inland of Algeria.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kabgayi is a diocese located in the city of Kabgayi in the ecclesiastical province of Kigali in Rwanda.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chipata is a diocese located in Chipata in Zambia.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antofagasta is a Latin Rite Metropolitan archdiocese in northern Chile's Antofagasta Province.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Qingdao/Tsingtao is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Jinan.
Jean Zerbo is a Malian Roman Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Bamako since 1998. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 28 June 2017. He is the first cardinal from Mali.
Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was a French White Fathers missionary who was Vicar Apostolic of Sahara and Sudan from 1893 to 1897. Under his leadership the first White Fathers missions were established in the French Sudan (Mali) at Ségou and Timbuktu. A solitary, ascetic person, he was not a natural leader and drove himself too hard without regard for his health. He retired in 1897 due to physical and mental exhaustion after a long trip in West Africa. He is known as coauthor of a monumental history of Christian Africa in ancient times.
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