Diocese of Kole
Kolen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in the Sankuru region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, established as an Apostolic Prefecture on 14 June 1951 and promoted to diocese on 14 September 1967. Covering about 66,000 km2, it is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kananga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 September 1967
- Latin
- Kolen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001882
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 59,000
- Population
- 280,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 21.1%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 1,595
- Extent
- 66,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
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
- Emery Kibal Nkufi Mansong'loo, C.P.
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 la Reina de la Paz stands in Kole, 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 KabindaKabinda
- 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
Located in the city of Kole within the ecclesiastical province of Kananga, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Kolen(sis)) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo shares its boundaries exactly with the Territoires ("counties") of Kole, Dekese and Lomela.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché de Kole, B.P. 1800, Kinshasa 1, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [082]431.03.30
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.