Catholic Church in Gabon

In 2020, there were over 960,000 Catholics in Gabon;[1] almost half the population divided in five major congregations.

[2] The Catholic Church had its big first French missionary in Gabon Jean-Rémi Bessieux, from the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in the first half of the 19th century.

In 1982 the Catholic Church received a pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II.

On December 12, 1997 Holy See and the Republic of Gabon signed an agreeing on the principles and some legal provisions concerning their relationship and their collaboration.

The Catholic Church is present in Gabon with one ecclesiastical province, four suffragan dioceses and one apostolic prefecture: At the end of 2020 the Catholic Church in Gabon counted: