Church's History in
Sudan
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Church's History in Sudan |
37 AD - Baptism of Queen Kandake's minister, first Christian Sudanese community in Meroe54-68 - Nero's soldiers explore the Nile, apparently up to its sources in Uganda.
284 - First monasteries in Phyle during the persecutions of Decius and Diocletian.
325 - First Bishop of Phyle (1st cataract).
350 - Fall of Meroe by a king of Axum.
450 - Silko, first Christian king of Ibrim
540 - Three Christian Kingdoms exist: Nobatia (cap. Faras), Makuria (Dongola), Alwa (Soba)
543 - Priest Julianus evangelises Faras
569 - Longinus, Bishop of Nobatia, evangelises Soba
622 - The Hijra, beginning of Moslem calendar
638 - Islam in Egypt
652 - The BACT or Pact, an agreement between Christian Kings of Sudan and Moslem leaders in Egypt; it lasted up to 1275
745 - Cyriacus (or Kyriakos), king of Dongola, marches with a Christian army, up to Cairo to free the Copt Patriarch Mikhail kept in prison by the Moslems.
785 - First translation of the Bible in Arabic
835 - Girgis I, king of Dongola, accompanied by his Christian Knights, travels to Baghdad to deal with Caliph al-Mu'tasim on political matters.
1172 - Salaheddin's army defeats the Christian army of Dongola
1218 - St. Francis of Assisi comes to Cairo to convert the sultan of Egypt.
1275 - End of the PACT (652), Sudanese Christians have to pay the jizia
1317 - The Christian cathedral of Dongola is taken over as a mosque;
1323 - Dongola is ruled by Moslem kings; Christian communities continue to live on the land.
1464 - A Bishop is still at Ibrim
1484 - Joel is a Christian king (chief) at Jebel Adda.
1504 - The Funj Kingdom rises in Sennar
1505 - Soba falls-to the Funj of Sennar (the ruins of the cathedral are still visible at Soba Sharq)
XVIIc - News reach Europe of Portuguese Christians in Roseires coming from Ethiopia; the Vatican repeatedly sends ambassadors to Sennar and Bornu (presuming it could be Kordofan)
1647 - Franciscan missionaries in Swakin
1699 - In Sennar and Eilafun, for about nine years, there are communities of Franciscans.
1821 - Mohammed Ali conquers Sudan for Egypt
1824 - Khartoum is chosen as capital of Sudan
1831 - BI. Daniel Comboni is born in Limone sul Garda (Italy)
1842 - First Catholic school in Khartoum by Fr. L. Montuori CM; the seed of the future Comboni schools
1846 - Khartoum becomes the centre of the new Vicariate Apostolic of Central Africa; Bishop A. Casolani was appointed as responsible; he resigm before leaving for, Khartoum; after him no bishops are appointed up to 1877.
1850 - Msgr. Knoblecker and missionaries are the first Europeans to reach Jebel Lado (Rejaf).
1853 - A church is started at Gondokoro, short North of Juba.
1854 - A church is started at Abu Koka (Holy Cross of Shambe, Bor)
1857 - Daniel Comboni comes to Sudan for the first time
1862 - A church is started at Kaka, Upper Nile
1862 - The Mission of Central Africa is closed up to 1872; during this period missionaries (Franciscans) are present only in Khartoum.
1865 - First Sudanese priest of modern times, Fr. Bona Youseph Habash, from Blue Nile Prov.
1866 - The first grammar of Dinka and Bari Languages, prepared by the missionaries, is printed at
Brixen, South Tyrol.1869 - BI. Bakhita is born in AI-gossa, Dar Fur
1871 - A church is started in F-1 Obeid.
1872 - Khartoum is reopened to church activities, Fr. Daniel Comboni is responsible.
1874 - A church is started in Berber and Diffing (Nuba Mountains).
1877 - Fr. Daniel Comboni becomes Bishop of Khartoum
1882 - on, known as the Mahdiya;-a number of priests and sisters remain
prisoners some of them for more than ten years; church work is destroyed.1885 - Khartoum is conquered and destroyed by the Mahe- Omdurman is the new capital.
1885 - A church is started in Suakin.
1890 - BI. Bakhita is baptised in Italy
1898 - End of the Mahdiya
1899 - Comboni missionaries, priests and sisters, come back to Omdurman and Khartoum. Catholic Church School reopens.
1901 - Church of Lul (Upper Nile)
1902 - The Servant of God Bishop A. M. Roveggio dies in Berber
1904 - Church of Kayango and Mbili (Bahr el Ghazal)
1905 - First government law to control the church. The colonial government divides the country into zones of religions influence. North of 10th parallel, to Islam; South of that, a zone each to the- British Missionary Societies, to the "Austrian" Catholic Mission, to the American Mission.
1911 - The railway, built to support the reconquest of Sudan by Britain, reaches Khartoum on the newly built bridge on the Blue Nile at Khartoum North
1912 - Church of Mupoi (West Equatoria)
1913 - Wau becomes see of a Bishop (Ap. Prefecture, 1917 Ap.Vicariate)
1919 - Church of Rejaf (Bahr el Jebel)
1920 - Church of Torit (Imatong)
1926 - The Servant of God Sr. Zeinab Alif dies in Serra de' Conti (Italy)
1927 - Juba becomes sce of a Bishop (Ap. Prefecture, 1951 Ap. Vicariale)
1928 - Okaru (Bahr el Gebel), the first minor seminary in Sudan
1928 - Start of the first University College in Sudan, formerly Gordon College
1929 - The former Catholic Church School is reorganised as Comboni College (for boys) and Sisters' School (for girls) in Khartoum
1933 - Malakal becomes see of a Bishop (Missio sui-juris, 1938 Ap. Prefecture, 1974 Diocese)
1942 - Foundation of the first Sudanese Sisters Society, the Sisters of Our Lady of Nazareth, in
Wau.1944 - First three Sudanese priests of modern time.
1947 - Juba Conference, to decide the future of the South.
1947 - Bl. Bakhita dies in Schio (Italy).
1949 - Mupoi (West Equatoria) becomes see of a Bishop (Ap.Prefecture, and in 1974, Diocese).
1952 - Foundation of the first Sudanese Brothers Society, St. Martin de Porres, Juba
1955 - First Sudanese Bishop, H. E. Ireneo Dud Wien
1955 - Rumbek becomes see of a Bishop (Ap. Vicariale, 1974 Diocese)
1956 - 01 - 01 - Independence of the Sudan; democratic government
1956 - Tore (Yei), the first National Major Seminary
1957 - Societies Registration Act, 1957. This act was repeatedly amended, and in 1994 it was amended again to control the churches.
1957 - All church schools in the South are nationalised: they were the only schools on the land.
1958 - Military Government
1960 - El Obeid becomes see of a Bishop (Ap. Vicariale, 1974 Diocese)
1962 - Second government law to control the churches: the 1962 Missionary Act.
1964 - All expatriate missionaries are expelled from Southern Sudan
1964 - Democratic Government
1969 - Military Government
1969 - Diplomatic Vatican relations (Ap. Delegation) with Sudan are established in Sudan.
1972 - Addis Abeba Agreement; autonomy of South Sudan
1972 - Sudan Embassy is established with the Vatican; the Ap. Delegation becomes Nunciature.
1973 - The first "Permanent" Constitution is adopted, as a one party state
1974 - Sudanese Hierarchy: two archdioceses and five dioceses; all Bishops are Sudanese.
1981 - Hundred years after Comboni's death, a Sudanese becomes Archbishop of Khartoum.
1983 - Torit becomes diocese.
1983 - Promulgation of the Shari'a Islamic Law.
1983 - End of South Sudan autonomy; the problem of the displaced revives.
1984 - First National Eucharistic Congress
1985 - Transitional Military Government
1986 - Yei becomes diocese.
1984 Democratic Government
1989 - 06 - 30 - Military Government
1992 - Bakhita is declared Blessed
1993 - Pope John Paul Il visits the Sudan
1994 - Third government law to control the churches; the Miscellaneous Amendment Act 1994 (amendment of the Societies Registration Act 1957)
1994 - Second National Eucharistic Congress
1995 - Jihad, the Islamic Holy War, becomes a strategic practice.
1996 - Bishop Daniel Comboni is declared Blessed
1996 - Comboni Year starts, year of the faith, in the program of preparation to the Jubilee 2000.
1998 - Canonisation of El. Bakhita announced on 21 December.
1999 - 100 Years of the modern Catholic Community in Sudan.
2000 - St. Bakhita.