Diocese of Goma
Gomaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese seated in Goma, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Established as an apostolic vicariate 30 June 1959 and promoted to a diocese 10 November 1959; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bukavu.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1959
- Latin
- Gomaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001501
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 795,210
- Population
- 2,039,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 39.0%
- Priests
- 214
- Catholics per priest
- 3,716
- Extent
- 25,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
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
- Willy Ngumbi Ngengele, M.Afr.
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 Joseph stands in Goma, 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 Butembo-BeniButembo-Beni
- 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
- Evêché, Quartier Himbi, Avenue de la Paix 248, B.P. 50, Goma, Nord-Kivu, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [081]488.29.71
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.