Diocese of Ganda
Gandan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ganda, Angola
Latin Church diocese in Ganda, Angola, erected on 1 August 2024 from the Diocese of Benguela. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Huambo, led by its first bishop, Estevao Binga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 August 2024
- Latin
- Gandan(us)
- Patron
- Saint John the Baptist
- Annuario code
- 001005126
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 633,636
- Population
- 947,826
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 66.9%
- Priests
- 59
- Catholics per priest
- 10,740
- Extent
- 24,447 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 26
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
- Estevao Binga
- Born
- 2 September 1966
- Birthplace
- Twei
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. John the Baptist stands in Ganda, 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 Huambo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Huambo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HuamboHuambo
- Diocese of BenguelaBenguela
- Diocese of Kwito-BiéKwito-Bié
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Angola, within the ecclesiastical province of Huambo, the city of Ganda is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ganda (Latin: Dioecesis Gandanam). Estêvão Binga is the current bishop of the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Rua Doutor António Agostinho Neto, Ganda, Benguela, Angola
- Telephone
- 923.444.663
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.