There are seven dioceses, including one archdiocese:[1] The history of the Catholic Church in Togo began with the evangelization carried out by the missionaries of the Society of African Missions of Lyon starting in 1882; four years later the Togo mission was founded, but its founder, the priest Jeremiah Moran, was poisoned in 1886.
In 1892 the mission was entrusted to the Missionaries of the Divine Word, and made an apostolic vicariate in 1914.
So evangelism passed again, in 1921, to the Fathers of the African missions: in 1930 there was the priestly ordination of the first Togolese.
[2] In 1985, the Togolese Catholic Church received a pastoral visit from Pope John Paul II.
The apostolic delegation of Togo and Guinea was established on 21 May 1973 with the brief Qui benignissima of Pope Paul VI; it was based in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast.