Diocese of Bokungu-Ikela
Bokunguen(sis)-Ikelaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bokungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in the Tshuapa region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Erected 11 September 1961 as the Diocese of Ikela from the Archdiocese of Coquilhatville and renamed Bokungu-Ikela on 16 June 1967; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 June 1967
- Latin
- Bokunguen(sis)-Ikelaën(sis)
- Patron
- Santísima Virgen María Reina de África
- Annuario code
- 001000920
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 49,351
- Population
- 617,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 8.0%
- Priests
- 24
- Catholics per priest
- 2,056
- Extent
- 42,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.2
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
- Toussaint Iluku Bolumbu, M.S.C.
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
Catedral de María Reina de África stands in Bokungu, 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.
The province of Mbandaka-Bikoro
A suffragan of Mbandaka-Bikoro.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Mbandaka-BikoroMbandaka-Bikoro
- Diocese of BasankusuBasankusu
- Diocese of BudjalaBudjala
- Diocese of LisalaLisala
- Diocese of LoloLolo
- Diocese of MolegbeMolegbe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Mission Catholique, Bokungu, par Boende, Equateur, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [081]811.27.09
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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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.