In 1875, Jean-Jacques Katty, a Catholic-educated son of King Khoulon Katty, ruler of the Rio Pongo region in what is today the West African country of Guinea, wrote to the Catholic vicar apostolic based in Sierra Leone, requesting the prelate send missionaries to his homeland. Two years later, Alsatian priests from the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, or Spiritans, established the first permanent…
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