This Article Roman Catholicism in Benin is composed of Creative Common Content.\n The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org.\nCheck us out at WikiPlays.org \nThe Catholic Church in Benin is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.\n\nThere are an estimated 1.5 million baptised Roman Catholics in the Republic of Benin or about 23 of the population in ten dioceses and archdioceses. There are 440 priests and 900 men and women in religious orders.\n\nThe Catholic Church in Benin gave one of its most esteemed bishops Archbishop Bernardin Gantin of Cotonou to the Roman Curia as Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops and as Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. He worked closely and was a personal friend of both Pope John Paul II who brought him to Rome and Benedict XVI who spoke of him when he visited his tomb in Ouidah Benin in November 2011 as part of a visit to that country. \n\nWithin Benin the hierarchy consists of\n\n\n Cotonou\n Abomey\n DassaZoum\n Lokossa\n Porto Novo\n\n Parakou\n Djougou\n Kandi\n Natitingou\n NDali\n\n\n\n \n Benin\n Benin