Diocese of Manono
Manonen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Manono, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, erected on 24 April 1971 from the dioceses of Baudouinville, Kilwa, and Kongolo. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 April 1971
- Latin
- Manonen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002147
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 152,158
- Population
- 568,748
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 26.8%
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 4,347
- Extent
- 45,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.4
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
- Vincent de Paul Kwanga Njubu
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 Santa Bárbara stands in Manono, 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 KongoloKongolo
- Diocese of Sakania-KipushiSakania
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Manono, a city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Manonen(sis)) in the ecclesiastical province of Lubumbashi.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, 3 avenue Barzin, Quartier Lukushi, Manono, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [097]413.08.30; [081]279.81.72; 371.27.05
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.