Location Moroni Denomination Roman Catholic Church | Country Comoros | |
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The St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Church (French: Église de Sainte Thérèse de l’Enfant Jésus) is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the city of Moroni, the capital of the archipelago and nation of Comoros in the Indian Ocean.
It is the main church in the island group of Islamic majority. The other two Catholic churches are in neighboring Mayotte, which is part of the same archipelago but it depends on France.
The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and is under the jurisdiction of the Vicariate of the Comoros Islands (Apostolicus Vicariatus Insularum Comorensium or Vicariat apostolique de l'archipel des Comores) which gained its current status under the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI by bull "Divini Salvatoris" 2010.
It is named for St. Therese of the Child Jesus (sœur Thérèse de l’Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte-Face), a French Discalced Carmelite declared a saint in 1925 and proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1997 by Pope John Paul II.