Diocese of Popokabaka
Popokabakaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Popokabaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Kwango Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, erected on 24 June 1961 from the Diocese of Kisantu. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 June 1961
- Latin
- Popokabakaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002629
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 495,446
- Population
- 792,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 62.6%
- Priests
- 106
- Catholics per priest
- 4,674
- Extent
- 45,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
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
- Bernard Marie Fansaka Biniama
- Born
- 29 June 1959
- Birthplace
- Misay
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
Cathédrale Sainte-Famille stands in Popokabaka, 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 KisantuKisantu
- Diocese of MatadiMatadi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Popokabaka, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Romano-Catholicae Dioecesis Popokabaka; French: Diocèse catholique romain de Popokabaka) within the ecclesiastical province of Kinshasa.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché de Popokabaka, B.P. 7245, Kinshasa 1, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [082]112.90.82; [081]156.11.11
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.