Diocese of Ebolowa
Ebolouan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ebolowa, Cameroon
The Diocese of Ebolowa is a Latin Church diocese in southern Cameroon, erected on May 20, 1991, and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Yaounde. It has been led by Bishop Philippe Alain Mbarga since 2016.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 June 2008
- Latin
- Ebolouan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001001341
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 110,913
- Population
- 320,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 34.7%
- Priests
- 58
- Catholics per priest
- 1,912
- Extent
- 9,970 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
- Philippe Alain Mbarga
- Born
- 28 January 1968
- Birthplace
- Obout
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
Cathedral of St. Anne and St. Joachim stands in Ebolowa, 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 Yaounde
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Yaounde.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of YaoundéYaoundé
- Diocese of MbalmayoMbalmayo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Ebolowa, a city in Cameroon, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ebolowa (Latin: Ebolouanus), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Yaoundé.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 910, Ebolowa, Ntem, Cameroun
- Telephone
- 222.284.064
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.