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Diocese of Lolo

Loloën(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Latin-rite diocese in the Mongala region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, established as an Apostolic Prefecture on 22 February 1937 and erected as a diocese on 2 July 1962. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
2 July 1962
Latin
Loloën(sis)
Annuario code
001002039

The see in figures

Catholics
79,239
Population
157,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
50.5%
Priests
22
Catholics per priest
3,602
Extent
10,000 km²
Catholics per km²
7.9

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
Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap.

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 Juan Bautista stands in Lolo, 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 Mbandaka-Bikoro

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Though it bears the name Lolo (Latin: Loloën(sis)), this Roman Catholic diocese of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is seated in the town of Bumba, within the ecclesiastical province of Mbandaka-Bikoro.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Evêché de Lolo, B.P. 124, Bumba, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
Telephone
[081]021.71.95

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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Sources

Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.