Diocese of Thiès, Senegal 🇸🇳

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Thiès / Thiesin(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Dakar

1969.02.06: Established as Diocese of Thiès / Thiesin(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dakar and became suffragan of Dakar)

Bishop:

vacant

Bishops of Thiès (Roman Rite)

Bishop André Gueye (58) (later Archbishop)
(2013.01.18 – 2025.02.22)

Priest of Thiès (Senegal) (1992.06.27 – 2013.01.18)

Bishop of Thiès (Senegal) (2013.01.18 – 2025.02.22)

Apostolic Administrator of Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Senegal) (2023.01.12 – 2025.02.22)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Dakar (Senegal) (2025.02.22 – ...)

Bishop Jacques Sarr
(1986.10.17 – 2011.01.18)

Bishop of Thiès (Senegal) (1986.10.17 – 2011.01.18)

Bishop François-Xavier Dione
(1969.02.06 – 1985.02.04)

Bishop of Thiès (Senegal) (1969.02.06 – 1985.02.04)

Area: 9,055 km²

Population: 66,830 Catholics (1.5% of 4,328,600 total)

Pastoral Centres: 25 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 83 priests (76 diocesan, 7 religious), 205 religious (88 brothers, 117 sisters), 21 seminarians