CONAKRY, VICARIATE APOSTOLIC OF. - It is located in French Guinea, where in 1877 the Fathers of the Holy Spirit penetrated from the apostolic vicariate of Sierra Leone and settled at Boffa. In 1890 they opened the station of K. and subsequently other missions were founded in the interior, always hampered by the propagandistic activity of Islam. On 18 Oct. 1897 the apostolic prefecture of French Guinea was erected with territories detached from the apostolic vicariates of Senegambia (today Dakar) and of Sierra Leone, which on 18 Apr. 1920 was elevated to an apostolic vicariate, still entrusted to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.

By decree of 12 May 1949 the eastern zone of the apostolic vicariate of French Guinea was detached to form the apostolic prefecture of Kankan, and the western zone was renamed K. Its area is about 115,570 sq km, with 7 principal stations, 20 fathers of whom two at the Seminary of Dixum, 4 brothers, 12 European and 12 native sisters, and more than 60 catechists. The Christians number 12,000 out of a population of 350,000. It has a seminary and two native congregations of brothers and of sisters.

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BIBL.: AAS, 41 (1940); MC, 1950, p. 105.

Saverio Paventi

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