Diocese of Kalemie-Kirungu
Kalemien(sis)-Kirunguen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese on Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tracing to the Apostolic Vicariate of Upper Congo erected on 11 January 1887 and renamed Diocese of Kalemie-Kirungu on 22 August 1972. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 August 1972
- Latin
- Kalemien(sis)-Kirunguen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001784
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 562,200
- Population
- 980,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 57.4%
- Priests
- 100
- Catholics per priest
- 5,622
- Extent
- 71,577 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.9
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
- Jean-Christophe Amade Aloma, 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 Christ-Roi stands in Kalemie, 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 Lubumbashi
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LubumbashiLubumbashi
- Diocese of KaminaKamina
- Diocese of Kilwa-KasengaKilwa
- Diocese of KolweziKolwezi
- Diocese of KongoloKongolo
- Diocese of ManonoManono
- Diocese of Sakania-KipushiSakania
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Diocese of Kalemie-Kirungu (French: Diocèse catholique romain de Kalemie-Kirungu; Latin: Kalemien(sis)-Kirunguen(sis)) is a Roman Catholic jurisdiction of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, seated at Kalemie-Kirungu and belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Lubumbashi.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, 15 Av. Lumumba, Kataki I, B.P. 475, Kalemie, Tanganyika, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [081]03.46.644
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.