Diocese of Butembo-Beni
Butemben(sis)-Benen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Butembo-Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese covering the cities of Butembo and Beni in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It began as a mission sui iuris in 1934, became an apostolic vicariate in 1938, was promoted to a diocese in 1959, and took its current name in 1967; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bukavu.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 February 1967
- Latin
- Butemben(sis)-Benen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000990
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 993,000
- Population
- 1,463,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 67.9%
- Priests
- 370
- Catholics per priest
- 2,684
- Extent
- 45,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 22
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
- Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku
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
Cathédrale Saint-André stands in Butembo-Beni, 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 Bukavu
A suffragan of Bukavu.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BukavuBukavu
- Diocese of GomaGoma
- Diocese of KasongoKasongo
- Diocese of KinduKindu
- Diocese of UviraUvira
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- B.P. 179, Butembo, Nord-Kivu, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [099]838.68.26
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.