Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum February 1993 in enjoyed a Papal visit from Pope John Paul II. The cathedral see of the Archbishop is St. Matthew's Cathedral, Khartoum. Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own archdiocese and one remaining suffragan see : Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum () is the Latin Metropolitan archbishopric with See in national capital Khartoum whose Ecclesiastical province, including the suffragan Obeid, covers Sudan. On the 3 of April in 1846 it was established by pope Gregory XVI as Apostolic Vicariate of Central Africa, on vast territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Egypt
Khartoum (state) Nile State, and in the west by North Kurdufan. There are several etymologies for the name of Khartoum. The explanation suggested as "most correct" by the state government's website is that it comes from the Arabic for "elephant's trunk", which describes the shape of the site of the city at the confluence of the two Niles, where a stretch of land extends into the water. Other stories are that it is a corruption of "gurtoum", the name for seeds of the sunflower plant, supposedly used by Roman invaders at the current site of Khartoum to treat soldiers' wounds, or that