Diocese of Goré
Goren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Goré, Chad
The Diocese of Goré is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in southern Chad, erected on 28 November 1998 from the dioceses of Doba and Moundou. Bishop Rosario Pio Ramolo has led it since its founding.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 November 1998
- Latin
- Goren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001504
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 104,099
- Population
- 344,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 30.3%
- Priests
- 24
- Catholics per priest
- 4,337
- Extent
- 21,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.0
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
- Rosario Pio Ramolo
- Born
- 12 December 1952
- Birthplace
- Limosano
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI CAPPUCCINI
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 Sainte-Marie-des-Anges stands in Goré, 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 N'Djamena
A suffragan of Archdiocese of N'Djamena.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of DobaDoba
- Diocese of MoundouMoundou
- Diocese of PalaPala
- Diocese of SarhSarh
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 61, Moundou-Goré, Tchad
- Telephone
- 66.36.01.79; 99.73.80.34
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.