Diocese of Kabinda
Kabindaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kabinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Lomami Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, erected as an Apostolic Vicariate in 1953 and promoted to diocese on 10 November 1959. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kananga. The see has been administered by Archbishop Felicien Ntambue Kasembe of Kananga since his transfer on 19 March 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1959
- Latin
- Kabindaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001772
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 200,000
- Population
- 700,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 28.6%
- Priests
- 72
- Catholics per priest
- 2,778
- Extent
- 58,625 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.4
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
- Félicien Ntambue Kasembe
- Born
- 8 September 1970
- Birthplace
- Kabinda
- Institute
- CONGREGAZIONE DEL CUORE IMMACOLATO DI MARIA (MISSIONARI DI SCHEUT)
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 San Martín stands in Kabinda, 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 Kananga
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kananga.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KanangaKananga
- Diocese of KoleKole
- Diocese of LueboLuebo
- Diocese of LuizaLuiza
- Diocese of MbujimayiMbujimayi
- Diocese of MwekaMweka
- Diocese of TshilombaTshilomba
- Diocese of TshumbeTshumbe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Kabinda is home to a Latin suffragan diocese of the Catholic Church (Latin: Kabindaën(sis)), part of the ecclesiastical province of Kananga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The cathedral and episcopal see stand in the city of Kabinda.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, 1 Avenue Père Samain, Quartier Mbandaka, Commune Kabuela Buela, Kabinda, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [081]653.98.32
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.