Diocese of Eséka
Esekanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Eséka, Cameroon
The Diocese of Eséka is a Latin Church diocese in the Centre Region of Cameroon, erected on 22 March 1993 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Douala.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 March 1993
- Latin
- Esekanen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001374
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 137,145
- Population
- 266,240
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 51.5%
- Priests
- 51
- Catholics per priest
- 2,689
- Extent
- 6,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 21
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 Achille Eyabi
- Born
- 30 September 1961
- Birthplace
- Ngambe
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 Fatima, Eséka stands in Eséka, 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 Douala
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Douala.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DoualaDouala
- Diocese of BafangBafang
- Diocese of BafoussamBafoussam
- Diocese of EdéaEdéa
- Diocese of NkongsambaNkongsamba
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Eséka in Cameroon is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Eséka (Latin: Esekanen(sis)), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Douala.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 35, Eséka, Cameroun
- Telephone
- 690.493.598
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.