Diocese of Kikwit
Kikuiten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Kwilu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, tracing to an Apostolic Prefecture of 1903 and promoted to diocese on 10 November 1959. Covering about 62,000 km2 with over two million Catholics, it is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1959
- Latin
- Kikuiten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001852
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,004,852
- Population
- 3,809,220
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 52.6%
- Priests
- 183
- Catholics per priest
- 10,955
- Extent
- 62,000 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
- Timothee Bodika Mansiyai, P.S.S.
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 Francisco Javier stands in Kikwit, 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 KengeKenge
- Diocese of KisantuKisantu
- Diocese of MatadiMatadi
- Diocese of PopokabakaPopokabaka
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Kikwit, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the seat of a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church (Latin: Kikuiten(sis)) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Kinshasa.
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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.