sions of King Humbert in Erythræa. We should add, to complete our list, that the Institute of Verona, resuming its former undertaking, has been in charge of the Egyptian Sudan since 1872, and that, the English missionaries of St. Joseph, from Mill Hill, have received from the White Fathers the Vicariate of the Upper Nile, in Northern Uganda. In a word, the missionary movement, begun amid so many difficulties, has developed wonderfully, in every direction, and it is comforting for the Catholic to see, at the beginning of this twentieth century, the heroism with which the missionaries are assailing the Dark Continent. In order to give a comprehensive view of the religious activity there, it will be instructive to quote in a single table the various jurisdictions into which Catholic Africa is divided, with their dates of establishment and the society in charge of each. The most recent statistics, which, unfortunately, are very far from being exact, give a total of 300,000 faithful—362,177, according to Father J. B. Piolet—with 1,064 missionaries. The religious statistics of Africa, in 1906, may be given as follows: Animists, Fetishists, 90,000,000; Mussulmans, 36,000,000; Jews (including the Falashes of Ethiopia), 300,000; other non-Christians (Parsees, Buddhists, etc.), 3,000; Christians: Monophysite Copts of Egypt, 150,000; Abyssinian Church, 3,000,000; Schismatic Greeks, Armenians, 2,000; Protestants, 400,000; Catholics, 360,000; Total, 130,215,000.
CATHOLIC AFRICA
| Date of erection |
Name | Clergy | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st century | Alexandria (Coptic; Patriarchate, 1895) Armenian bishopric | Secular clergy | Patriarchate |
| 1st century | Hermopolis, Thebes (Coptic bishoprics, 1895) | {{{1}}}„ | Bishoprics |
| 202 | Carthage–Tunis (1884) | {{{1}}}„ | Archbishopric |
| 1234 | Morocco (1859) | Franciscans | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1353 | Las Palmas (Canaries) | Secular clergy | Bishopric |
| 1421 | Ceuta (joined to Cadiz) | {{{1}}}„ | Ancient Bishopric |
| 1514 | Funchal (Madeira) | {{{1}}}„ | Bishopric |
| 1532 | São Thiago do Cabo Verde | {{{1}}}„ | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1534 | São Thomé | {{{1}}}„ | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1534 | Angra (Azores) | Secular clergy and Fathers of the Holy Ghost | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1612 | Mozambique | Secular clergy and Society of Jesus | Prelature nullius |
| 1640 | Portuguese Congo (1865) | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Prefecture apostolic |
| 1654 | Tripoli | Franciscans | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1740 | Fernando-Po (1855) | Sacred Heart of Mary (Barcelona) | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1765 | Senegal | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1818 | Western Cape Colony | Secular clergy | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1819 | San Cristobal de la Laguna (Santa Cruz, Teneriffe) | {{{1}}}„ | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1838 | Algiers | Secular clergy and White Fathers | Archbishopric |
| 1838 | Abyssinia | Lazarists | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1839 | Egypt | Franciscans | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1842 | Gaboon | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1846 | Gallas | Capuchins | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1846 | Egyptian Sudan | Institute of Verona | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1847 | Eastern Cape Colony | Secular clergy | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1847 | Port-Louis (Mauritius) | Secular clergy and Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Bishopric |
| 1848 | Madagascar (Central) | Jesuits | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1848 | Mayotte Islands, Nossi-Bé, Comores | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1850 | Saint-Denis (Réunion) | Secular clergy and Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Bishopric |
| 1850 | Natal | Oblates of Mary | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1858 | Sierra Leone | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1860 | Benin | African Missions of Lyons | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1862 | Northern Zanguebar | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1863 | Senegambia | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1866 | Oran | Secular clergy | Diocese |
| 1866 | Constantine | {{{1}}}„ | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1868 | Sahara (Ghardaia) | White Fathers | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1874 | Central Cape Colony | Secular clergy | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1879 | Upper Cimbebasia | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1879 | Gold Coast | African Missions of Lyons | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1879 | Zambesia | Jesuits | Mission |
| 1880 | Upper Congo | White Fathers | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1882 | Dahomey | African Missions of Lyons | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1883 | Southern Victoria-Nyanza | White Fathers | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1884 | Upper Niger | African Missions of Lyons | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1884 | Orange River | Oblates of St. Francis of Sales (Troyes) | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1885 | Delta of the Nile | African Missions of Lyons | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1886 | Transvaal | Oblates of Mary | {{{1}}}„ |
| {{{1}}}„ | Orange Free State | {{{1}}}„ | Vicariate Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Loango | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | {{{1}}}„ |
| {{{1}}}„ | Tanganyika | White Fathers | {{{1}}}„ |
| {{{1}}}„ | Unyanyembe | White Fathers | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1887 | Southern Zanguebar | Bavarian Benedictines | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1888 | Congo Free State | Mission of Scheut | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1889 | Lower Niger | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1890 | Kamerun | Pallotines | {{{1}}}„ |
| {{{1}}}„ | French Upper Congo | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1891 | Sahara and Sudan | White Fathers | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1892 | Seychelles (Port Victoria) | Capuchins | Diocese |
| {{{1}}}„ | Lower Cimbebasia | Oblates of Mary | Prefecture Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Togo | Foreign Missions of Steyl | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1892 | Koango | Jesuits | Mission |
| 1894 | Upper Nile | Foreign Missions of Mill Hill | Vicariate Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Northern Victoria-Nyanza | White Fathers | {{{1}}}„ |
| {{{1}}}„ | Erythræa | Capuchins (Italians) | Prefecture Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Basutoland | Oblates of Mary | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1895 | Ivory Coast | African Missions of Lyons | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1896 | Southern Madagascar | Lazarists | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1897 | Nyassa | White Fathers | {{{1}}}„ |
| {{{1}}}„ | French Guinea | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Prefecture Apostolic |
| 1898 | Welle | Premonstrants | {{{1}}}„ |
| {{{1}}}„ | Northern Madagascar | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Vicariate Apostolic |
| 1901 | Upper Kassai | Missions of Scheut | Prefecture Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Lunda (Angola) | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Mission |
| 1903 | Shire | Company of Mary | Prefecture Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Liberia | African Missions of Lyons | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1904 | Bata (Spanish Guinea) | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Mission |
| {{{1}}}„ | Stanley Falls | Priests of the Sacred Heart | Prefecture Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Benadir | Trinitarians | {{{1}}}„ |
| 1905 | Kenya | Institute Consolata (Turin) | Mission |
| 1906 | Central Zanguebar | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Vicariate Apostolic |
| {{{1}}}„ | Ubangi-Shari | Fathers of the Holy Ghost | Prefecture Apostolic |
