Diocese of Kenge
Kengen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kenge, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Kwango Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, established as an Apostolic Prefecture on 5 July 1957 and erected as a diocese on 6 July 1963. Its cathedral in Kenge is dedicated to Blessed Anuarite, and the diocese is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 6 July 1963
- Latin
- Kengen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001830
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 380,863
- Population
- 768,996
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 49.5%
- Priests
- 102
- Catholics per priest
- 3,734
- Extent
- 34,385 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
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-Pierre Kwambamba Masi
- Born
- 9 August 1960
- Birthplace
- Ngi
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
Cathedral of Blessed Anuarite stands in Kenge, 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 Kinshasa
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kinshasa.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KinshasaKinshasa
- Diocese of BomaBoma
- Diocese of IdiofaIdiofa
- Diocese of InongoInongo
- Diocese of KikwitKikwit
- Diocese of KisantuKisantu
- Diocese of MatadiMatadi
- Diocese of PopokabakaPopokabaka
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan Latin diocese of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa, Kenge (Latin: Kengen(sis)) has as its cathedral and episcopal see the Cathedral of Blessed Anwarite (French: Cathédrale Bienheureuse Anwarite). The see city of Kenge, Bas-Congo, lies in the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Diocèse de Kenge, 1 Avenue de l’Evêché, B.P. 8631, Kinshasa 1, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- 970.128.583; [082]521.62.07
- evechekenge@yahoo.fr
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.