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Sierra Leone
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Constitutional democracy in west Africa. Extremely poor with a great inequality in income distribution. The majority of the six million inhabitants are Muslim; about 10% are Christian, about a third of them Catholic. Evangelization was entrusted to the Fathers of the Holy Ghost of Norwalk, Connecticut, who established a Vicariate Apostolic in 1858. Ecclesiastically, the country is governed by the archdiocese of
- Freetown and Bo
and the dioceses of
- Kenema
- Makeni
See also
- World Fact Book
- Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
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Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Sierra Leone'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/s/sierra-leone.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Sierra Leone'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/s/sierra-leone.html. 1910.
