Diocese of Sakania-Kipushi
Sakanien(sis)-Kipushien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sakania, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, established on 12 May 1925 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Upper Luapula, promoted to diocese in 1959, and renamed Sakania-Kipushi in 1977. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 March 1977
- Latin
- Sakanien(sis)-Kipushien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002843
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 109,975
- Population
- 203,995
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 53.9%
- Priests
- 50
- Catholics per priest
- 2,200
- Extent
- 40,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.7
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
- Gaston Kashala Ruwezi, S.D.B.
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 Sacré-Cœur stands in Sakania, 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 ManonoManono
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sakania-Kipushi (Latin: Sakanien(sis)-Kipushien(sis)) takes its seat in the city of Sakania-Kipushi.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, Kafubu-Kipushi, B.P. 521, Lubumbashi
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.