Diocese of Djibouti
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Djibouti is the Latin sole diocese in the country of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See and its missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral, Our Lady of the Good Shepherd Cathedral is located in the national capital, Djibouti City.
Statistics
As per 2021, it pastorally served 5,262 Catholics on 23,200 km2 in 5 parishes and a mission with 5 diocesan priests and 26 lay religious.History
- Established on 28 April 1914, as Apostolic Prefecture of Djibouti, on the colonial territory of French Somaliland, canonically split off from the vast Apostolic Vicariate of Galla
- Promoted on 14 September 1955, as Diocese of Djibouti.
Ordinaries
; Apostolic Prefects of Djibouti- Friar Pascal Lombardo de Luchon, OFMCap
- Fr. Marcellien Lucas de La Guerche, OFMCap
- Fr. Henri-Bernardin Hoffmann, OFMCap
- Henri-Bernardin Hoffmann, OFMCap
- Michel-Joseph-Gérard Gagnon, MAfr ; later Bishop of Laghouat
- Georges Perron, OFMCap, previously Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Harar
- Giorgio Bertin, OFM, also Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Diocese of Mogadiscio
- Jamal Khader Daibes, also Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Diocese of Mogadiscio