Diocese of Dungu-Doruma
Dunguen(sis)-Dorumaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in the Haut-Uele region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Doruma 24 February 1958, promoted to a diocese 26 September 1967 (named Doruma-Dungu from 1970), and renamed Diocese of Dungu-Doruma on 8 November 2023; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kisangani.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 November 2023
- Latin
- Dunguen(sis)-Dorumaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001317
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 105,000
- Population
- 200,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 52.5%
- Priests
- 51
- Catholics per priest
- 2,059
- Extent
- 44,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.4
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
- Emile Mushosho Matabaro
- Born
- 5 March 1967
- Birthplace
- Bukavu
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 Saints Martyrs de l’Ouganda stands in Dungu, 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 Kisangani
A suffragan of Kisangani.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KisanganiKisangani
- Diocese of BondoBondo
- Diocese of BuniaBunia
- Diocese of ButaButa
- Diocese of IsangiIsangi
- Diocese of Isiro-NiangaraIsiro
- Diocese of Mahagi-NiokaMahagi
- Diocese of WambaWamba
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 20, Dungu [par Isiro], Haut-Congo, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [081]901.33.39; [097]369.22.06
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.