The Catholic Church in the

Comoros The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni, ...

is part of the worldwide

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, under the spiritual leadership of the

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. There are very few Catholics in this overwhelmingly

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country - 0.3% of the total population in 2020. No

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have been established, but the whole of the country forms the Apostolic Vicariate of the Comoros Archipelago.Catholic Hierarchy
/ref> There is a Roman Catholic church in Moroni on the island. Another Roman Catholic church is in Mutsamudu. There is also a Protestant church in Moroni.

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