Diocese of Tshilomba
Tshilombana
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tshilomba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in Lomami Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, erected on 25 March 2022 from the Diocese of Luiza, making it one of the country's newest sees. Its seat is Saint James Cathedral (Saint-Jacques) in Tshilomba, and it is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kananga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 2022
- Latin
- Tshilombana
- Annuario code
- 001005109
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 792,000
- Population
- 1,320,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 60.0%
- Priests
- 76
- Catholics per priest
- 10,421
- Extent
- 11,747 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 67
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
- Sebastien Kenda Ntumba
- Born
- 11 June 1960
- Birthplace
- Tshiona
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
Saint James Cathedral stands in Tshilomba, 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 Kananga
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kananga.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KanangaKananga
- Diocese of KabindaKabinda
- Diocese of KoleKole
- Diocese of LueboLuebo
- Diocese of LuizaLuiza
- Diocese of MbujimayiMbujimayi
- Diocese of MwekaMweka
- Diocese of TshumbeTshumbe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Roman Catholic Church maintains the Diocese of Tshilomba (Latin: Dioecesis Tshilombana).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- c/o Paroisse Saint Jacques, B.P. 60, Mwene-Ditu, Tshilomba, Rép. Démocratique du Congo
- Telephone
- [081]408.33.35; [097]326.82.41
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.