Diocese of Kongolo
Kongoloën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kongolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, established on 30 June 1911 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Northern Katanga and promoted to diocese on 10 November 1959. Its cathedral in Kongolo, the Cathedrale Sacre-Coeur-de-Marie, is dedicated to the Heart of Mary; the diocese is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1959
- Latin
- Kongoloën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001887
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 135,350
- Population
- 700,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 19.3%
- Priests
- 81
- Catholics per priest
- 1,671
- Extent
- 44,206 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Oscar Ngoy wa Mpanga
- Born
- 5 December 1964
- Birthplace
- Kyolo
- Institute
- CONGREGAZIONE DELLO SPIRITO SANTO
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
Cathedrale Sacre-Coeur-de-Marie stands in Kongolo, 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 Kalemie-KirunguKalemie
- Diocese of KaminaKamina
- Diocese of Kilwa-KasengaKilwa
- Diocese of KolweziKolwezi
- Diocese of ManonoManono
- Diocese of Sakania-KipushiSakania
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Lubumbashi, Kongolo (Latin: Kongoloën(sis)) lies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its episcopal see is the Cathédrale Sacré-Coeur-de-Marie in the city of Kongolo, a cathedral dedicated to Our Lady's Heart.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 274, Kongolo, Tanganyika, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [081]166.23.802
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.