Education
Schools, meals and teacher training
We educate and provide meals for some 50,000 children, and run the CUSS Rumbek Campus, the Teacher Training College and St. Teresa.
Education DepartmentCatholic Diocese of Rumbek
Across 65,000 square kilometres of Lakes State and southern Warrap State, the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek (CDOR) teaches and feeds 50,000 children, runs hospitals and clinics, and gathers 17 parishes and more than 150 rural chapels and prayer stations.
and one mission, with 150+ rural chapels and prayer stations
Lakes State and southern Warrap State, South Sudan
taught and fed through our schools each year
Who we are
Our mission statement
Evangelization and integral human development through pastoral care, education and health.
The scope of the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek (CDOR) is broad: evangelical initiatives, development projects, pastoral programmes, health and education. We support nearly one hundred fathers and sisters within the diocesan territory. We run hospitals and health centres, teacher training colleges and vocational colleges. We sponsor justice and peace initiatives. We visit prisons, rehabilitate child soldiers, and care for lepers.
Our chapels and prayer stations range from imposing churches to simple gatherings in the shade of a mango tree. To do this we place our trust in the sustaining power of the Catholic Church, the generosity of the donors who support us, and the dedication of the men and women who work alongside us.
Read our historyOur impact
Five departments carry the mission of CDOR, coordinated by the Administration department at Bethany House in Nairobi and run by South Sudanese staff alongside our clergy and religious.
Education
We educate and provide meals for some 50,000 children, and run the CUSS Rumbek Campus, the Teacher Training College and St. Teresa.
Education Department
Health
Mapuordit Hospital carries 111 beds across four departments with a theatre on 24-hour standby. PHCC Rumbek and Loreto PHCC carry primary care.
Health Department
Good News Radio
News, training, homilies and pre-recorded Sunday Mass for those who cannot travel, broadcast in Dinka, Jur, Bongo, Simple Arabic and English.
Listen live
Women Desk
The St Monica women's groups and parish cooperatives train women in agriculture, crafts and small enterprise, and give them a place to organise.
Women Desk
Pastoral
PALICA develops catechetical curricula and translates liturgical texts and Scripture into local languages such as Dinka. Lay catechists lead Sunday services and prayer stations where priests can only visit periodically.
Pastoral Department
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Galatians 3:28
Rt. Rev. Christian Carlassare, mccj
Bishop of Rumbek. Ordained 25 March 2022 at the Holy Family Cathedral, Rumbek.
Our parishes
Many are sub-divided into sub-parishes, with more than 150 rural chapels and prayer stations reaching the cattle camps and villages between them.
Find a parishDonations
School meals, medicines, teacher salaries, radio transmitters, the rebuilding of the cathedral: every one of these depends on the generosity of people who will never visit Rumbek.
Gifts are received through our donation partner (to be confirmed) and acknowledged by the diocesan office.
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