Diocese of Dassa-Zoumé
Dassan(us)-Zumen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Dassa-Zoumé, Benin
The Diocese of Dassa-Zoumé, Benin, was erected on June 10, 1995, from the Diocese of Abomey and is suffragan to Cotonou. Bishop François Xavier Ghanbodè Gnonhossou has led it since February 12, 2015.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 June 1995
- Latin
- Dassan(us)-Zumen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Fourvière
- Annuario code
- 001001279
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 479,979
- Population
- 719,477
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 66.7%
- Priests
- 155
- Catholics per priest
- 3,097
- Extent
- 13,931 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 34
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
- François Gnonhossou
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 Notre-Dame de Fourvière stands in Dassa-Zoumé, 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 Cotonou
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cotonou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CotonouCotonou
- Diocese of AbomeyAbomey
- Diocese of LokossaLokossa
- Diocese of Porto NovoPorto Novo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in the city of Dassa-Zoumé within the ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin, this Latin Church diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Dassana-Zumensis) carries out its social work through Caritas Dassa.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 106, Dassa-Zoumé, Bénin
- Telephone
- 01.90.28.52.75
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.