Diocese of Kisantu
Kisantuen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, established as an Apostolic Vicariate on 1 April 1931 and promoted to diocese on 10 November 1959. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1959
- Latin
- Kisantuen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001869
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 601,000
- Population
- 900,500
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 66.7%
- Priests
- 248
- Catholics per priest
- 2,423
- Extent
- 31,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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-Crispin Kimbeni Ki Kanda
- Born
- 22 October 1969
- Birthplace
- Kinshasa
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
Cathèdrale Notre Dame de Sept Douleurs stands in Kisantu, 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 KikwitKikwit
- Diocese of MatadiMatadi
- Diocese of PopokabakaPopokabaka
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Kisantu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Kisantuen(sis)) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Kinshasa.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché de Kisantu, 1 Avenue de la Mission, B.P. 25, Inkisi, Kongo Central, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [082]720.53.11
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.