Diocese of Archipel des Comores
Insularum Comorensium
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Archipel des Comores, Comoros
Apostolic Vicariate (not a diocese) covering the Comoros and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, established as an apostolic administration in 1975 and raised to an apostolic vicariate on 1 May 2010. Exempt and directly subject to the Holy See, with its see at Moroni. Bishop Charles Mahuza Yava, S.D.S., is the vicar apostolic; Bishop Gilbert Aubry was named apostolic administrator in August 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 May 2010
- Latin
- Insularum Comorensium
- Patron
- St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001000384
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 6,629
- Priests
- 6
- Catholics per priest
- 1,105
- Extent
- 2,235 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Charles Mahuza Yava, S.D.S.
- Born
- 29 July 1960
- Birthplace
- Sandoa
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ DEL DIVIN SALVATORE (SALVATORIANI) (S.D.S.)
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus stands in Archipel des Comores, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Between insular Madagascar and continental Africa, in the Indian Ocean, lies the Apostolic Vicariate of the Comoros Archipelago, a Latin missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church. Its territory takes in the Comoros and Mayotte, with a church in each, and its see rests at Moroni on the island of Grande Comore. The vicariate is exempt, answering directly to the Holy See rather than to any ecclesiastical province.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.